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Reduce Your Stress With Antioxidants

Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Stress can and does play a role in your health.

If prolonged, it takes a heavy toll on the body and increases your risk of everything from heart disease, obesity, and infection to anxiety, depression, and memory problems.

We all face different challenges and obstacles, and sometimes the pressure is hard to handle.

When we feel overwhelmed or unsure how to meet the demands placed on us, we experience stress. It's essential to learn how to deal with it in a more positive way and reduce its impact on our daily lives.

One way to reduce it is to improve our health by consuming more antioxidants. In times of tension, the body needs more of them to improve and maintain our health and in turn, we have more energy and feel better.

Scientists find it difficult to define this tense feeling because it is a subjective sensation associated with varied symptoms that differ for each of us.

As an example, a steep roller coaster ride that causes fear and anxiety for some, can prove highly exciting for others. Even winning a race or an election may create a more tense experience than most people realize. The potential causes of it are numerous and highly individual.

What are Some Ways to Relieve Stress?
Learn how to utilize and transform it so that it will make you more productive and less self-destructive. Here are some ways to decrease that tense feeling:

Increase the antioxidants in your daily diet such as fruits and vegetables, or other natural supplements (see below).

Increase your physical activities such as walking, jogging, aerobic exercising, etc.

Try different types of meditation such as prayer, etc.

Try listening to music, hobbies, volunteer work, keeping a daily journal of events and how they feel, laughter, playing with pets, playing with grandchildren, and take short breaks for "me" time (time for yourself) to help unwind and relax.

Try various progressive muscular relaxation exercises such as massage therapies or deep breathing are popular among others. . .

Get a Massage Chair. If you feel like you simply don't have the time to make a massage appointment, consider owning a heated massage chair to melt away stress anxiety or for those nights when you have insomnia.
Some of these chairs work with air, some with rollers and/or vibration. Simply lean back in an ergonomically designed massage chair and push a button to relieve your aching legs, tired back or stiff neck and shoulders from sitting at a computer all day.
Try acupuncture, acupressure, biofeedback and other bodywork and postural techniques.

Have a strong emotional support groupsuch as family and/or friends. Being able to relax and be a part of others lives can be a very powerful tension-buster.

What are Some Effects of Stress?

We all respond to tension in different ways. Some people blush, some eat more while others grow pale or eat less. There are numerous physical as well as emotional responses as shown by the following list of common signs and symptoms:

Frequent headaches, jaw clenching or pain

Gritting or grinding teeth

Stuttering or stammering

Tremors, trembling of lips, hands

Neck ache, back pain, muscle spasms

Light headedness, faintness, dizziness

Frequent blushing, sweating

Cold or sweaty hands, feet

Increased or decreased appetite

Insomnia, nightmares, disturbing dreams

Difficulty concentrating, racing thoughts

Feeling overloaded or overwhelmed

Frequent use of over-the-counter drugs

Increased gambling or impulse buying

Increased smoking, alcohol or drug use

This list can go on and on, but we can find ways to relieve our tenseness.

Can Natural Supplements or Antioxidant-Rich Foods Help Calm Nerves?

Yes! Recent research suggests that anywhere from 60 to 90 percent of illnesses are stress-related.

We often get busy and forget to take care of our bodies. We get caught under loads of stress from our jobs, home, and other factors that keeps us from taking "Me Time".

We have to remember that if we don't take care of ourselves, someone will have to begin taking care of us!

Here are a few natural supplements and/or Antioxidant-Rich Foods to reduce stress and calm nerves:

Dark Chocolate As we know, people around the world have eaten chocolate as a great stress-reliever.
Fruits & Vegetables , though are one of the best ways to naturally increase our vitamins, minerals and antioxidants that our bodies need.

Acai Berry is a fruit from the Amazon Rainforest. It is known as Nature's Superfood Antioxidant and has been around for thousands of years. It is also known as the Number 1 Superfood in the world.

The antioxidants it contains support the nervous system, especially when under stress.

B Vitamins: During times of mental or physical tension, the body rapidly loses B vitamins, so a good B-Complex vitamin should always be on your kitchen shelf.

It is easy to say "just keep your stress under control", but in our fast-paced society, with cell phones at our ear, radios singing to us, televisions pitching us, and cars bumper to bumper on the freeway,... and you still have to feed the kids dinner, sometimes that just isn't possible.

So,...try to take a stand against over-scheduling. Be realistic with your available energy, get a good night's sleep, learn to relax, treat your body well, watch out for too many negative thoughts, and solve the little problems before they become big ones.

Make up your mind today that you are going to manage your stress so that it stops affecting your health and wellness!

*NOTE: If you are pregnant, please consult your doctor before before trying any natural remedy.

Information on this site is provided for informational purposes only and is not meant to substitute for the advice provided by your own physician or other medical professional.

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