‘Stress’ has perhaps become the most widely used word in the history of English language. These days everybody almost seems to be bragging of their ‘stress-levels’. The important thing to understand is that what can be termed as stress and what cannot be. A little stress is actually good. That helps you do the work. When that very stress becomes ‘distress’ that is the time to hit the panic button. The idea is to de-stress and not reach distress levels!
The best way to manage and control your stress levels is to have a healthy diet plan in place. That will help you achieve the best levels of peace and will ensure that you work and play with optimum energy.
How does a good diet work to our advantage and what actually is a good diet? For the relevance of this article, it can be stated that the 3 most important stress – busting vitamins are inositol, Vitamin C and other Vitamin B complexes. Vitamin B5-pantothenic acid is also a popular stress reliever.
If you include a lot of green veggies and fruits in your diet, you can be sure that you’re taking the right vitamins. But don’t overload yourself on these! Also, fish is more beneficial than meat. Sea fish have high levels of vitamin A that is dissolved in their cod-liver oils.
It is no secret that vitamin A is an anxiety reliever; more specifically it is the inositol that works. Vitamin C is obtained from citrus fruits and other succulent fruits and even spinach! No wonder Popeye, the sailor man never falls sick! Vitamin C is a natural antioxidant and well as helps in stress reduction and prevents scurvy.
Water soluble vitamins include Vitamin B and its complexes. What is actually does is that it restores the nervous imbalance by strengthening and fortifying your nerves and thus effectively works as a stress reliever.
As mentioned earlier, fruits and vegetables are the best sources of water soluble vitamins and fish and meat are good sources of fat-soluble vitamins. Fat soluble vitamins are Vitamins by Vitamin Agent A, D, E and K. where fish oil and fish liver oils are the best source of Vitamin A. natural herbs such as Ginseng boots the natural anxiety relief system in the body.
One important myth that needs to be addressed here is that our body utilizes only that amount of vitamins that is needed and not more. That is, if you’re taking too much vitamin supplements in order to grow healthy fast – it’s not working. Our system is designed such that it flushes out any extra vitamins that are not required.
Like all machines, your body also needs to be well maintained to be running smoothly – and the best way to ensure is to take your vitamins regularly.
Source by Robbie R Bainer