Vegetables and fruit aroma Relieve Stress

Do you include people who like to enjoy aromatherapy? Now there is "fragrance" as a kind of new so-called best natural aromatherapy to relieve stress.

According to recent studies, linalool, fragrant compounds derived from plants, especially of food and flowers, such as oranges, grapes, mango, lemon, basil, and lavender, can suppress stress hormones. Other benefits include improving immune cells.

Conclusions are found in research by a team of experts from Japan using rats. In a study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, the rats were given exposure to linalool in the laboratory under conditions of stress. Then monitored the circulation of chemical substances and changes in genes in the body of the animals.

After compared with animals not exposed to linalool but stress, it turns out the animal that gets exposure to linalool change the activity of 109 genes that respond to stress. Besides their immune systems are also increasing.

The use of aromatherapy for relaxation and treatment has been practiced for thousands of years. In addition to reducing stress, aromatherapy is believed effective in improving mood, prevents inflammation and depression, insomnia, and other health problems, especially those caused by stress.

If you want to get aromatherapy linalool, maybe you could walk to the market which provides fresh vegetables and fruit. Or, spend some time this weekend to visit the vegetable plantation outside town.

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Stress Increases Blood Sugar

The link between stress and health problems have long been known to experts. Fatigue, impaired concentration, until the weight gain is less than the impact of stress. Now you can add one other disorders, namely the rise in blood sugar.

It happened because when we are stressed, your body will make adjustments. Adjustment effort will cause the heart beat faster, and shortness of breath. Blood sugar soaring bandwagon.

"Under the pressure of stress, our bodies will be in fight mode or letting so that blood sugar will rise as a form of preparation for this condition," said Richard Surwit, PhD, author of The Mind Body Diabetes Revolution.

Basically stress hormones in our bodies are designed only to deal with stressful situations that are temporary, such as traffic, face a test of work, or to meet future in-laws, for example. Unfortunately, most of the stress we experience chronic, aka been long settled. Call it a job that demanded long hours every day, or must care for a sick parent.

As a result, stress hormones such as predators because were going to have to endure long periods of time. Blood sugar was forced to constantly adjust to these conditions. For people with diabetes, increased blood sugar is a problem in itself since they can not produce extra insulin to maintain blood sugar.

The good news, sport and relaxation in nature other stress management techniques can help us to control blood sugar levels.

In a study conducted by experts from Duke University on 100 patients with blood sugar following the stress management classes, known after a year of their blood sugar levels stay awake and the risk of diabetic complications was reduced.

The survey respondents are following the stress management classes which include muscle relaxation, if the breath, and learn to have positive thoughts.

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Stress That Brain Drain

There are times when stress is needed to spur achievement. But do not take lightly to repetitive stress, because it would be like a storm drain brain nutrients and led to various physical ailments.

Choose where, running from fire officials who used live ammunition during demonstrations demanding reform, or face the traffic is gridlocked for two hours because of the demonstration? Maybe you'll quickly say, "Not everything." But if you have to choose, usually people tend to choose the traffic jam.

Both situations would indeed cause the same reaction in our physical and psychic. Namely stress, and blood and adrenaline flowing. But when referring to the opinion of the endocrinologist in New York's Rockefeller University, Bruce McEwen, the authorities should select only shot. Even better than a hungry tiger chased facing traffic congestion. Kok, can?

McEwen had a reason. Running from the fire apparatus or from the pursuit of tigers will only bring stress that short even if it appears more daunting, while our bodies are designed to be able to deal with such situations. Another case of the old stress, repetitive, and chronic, our bodies are not prepared for it and consequently can damage the brain.

Stress or stressful situation physically and psychologically, is often regarded as a 'friend'. Called a friend, because there are times when the situation was actually able to generate pressure and productivity achievements. Therefore psychologists often counseled, stress does not need to be avoided or resisted, but manageable.
Unfortunately, not everyone is able to manage stress, resulting in many illnesses (physical) that arise. Starting from the ulcer, liver, heart, stroke, cancer and so on. Because of that slogan in a healthy body there is a healthy soul, no longer appropriate. The science shows, in the soul that there is a healthy body healthier.

Shaping Memory
"Feelings of disappointment and loss that occur in everyday life, stress is different every day, all make an impact," said Dra. Nilam Widyarini, MS., A graduate of the Graduate Program of Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta.

Lecturer at the University of Atmajaya Jakarta is then explained, the circumstances that cause stress, both physically and psychologically, will cause chemical reactions in the body's incredible. As soon as a person experiencing a stressful situation, the brain will send messages to the nerves to release adrenaline and other brain chemicals, to be sent as an energy to the muscles.
More importantly, there is a small part of the brain called the hippothalamus, will send a message to the pituitary hormone corticotrophin that drain into the blood.

In turn, this hormone prompts the adrenal glands to release more stress hormones (glucocorticoids). This hormone will tell your body to flood the blood with sugar, to immediately have the energy to run away from danger.

Stress hormones appear particularly 'shocking' for the brain called the hippocampus. These sections play an important role in shaping memory.

In the guide book on stress entitled Why Zebras Do not Get Ulcers Robert Sapolsky explains that if successfully cope with stressful situations, we want to be able to remember other times in order to avoid it. In a very shocking event, usually memory will be sharpened. Perhaps this could explain, why it is hard to forget the tragedy of May Riot '65 or '98.

Repeated stress
Sometimes people experience stress repeatedly, and as a result of glucocorticoids will flood the brain. Over time, the benefits of stress hormones is lost, so the memory will get worse, the energy level down, and health problems arise.

According to Sapolsky, within a few days of stress hormones increase, will weaken (even kill) hippocampal cells when oxygen supply is interrupted, as happens during a stroke or heart attack.

Traumatic stress as it occurs in children victims of sexual violence, veterans and victims of war, of course, are more likely to damage the brain. In the American Journal of Psychiatry explained that the average veteran right hippocampal brain is reduced by 8%. Child victims of sexual violence in the brains of left hippocampal size reduced 12%.

Another study carried out intensively for four years against a group of women known, they are often elevated stress hormones, on brain hippocampal decreases of 14%. From the examination of patients with depression are known, hippocampal size was reduced 19% compared to healthy people.

Seeing the consequences are very bad, the only way to keep us healthy is as much as possible to manage stress.

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Chlorophyll a Unique Role in Kiwifruit

Generally the fruit changes color from green (when young) to yellow, orange, or red (when ripe). Only a few types of fruits that remain green when ripe. One of them is the kiwi.

The green color is caused by the pigment chlorophyll levels remained unchanged in the process of maturation. Foodstuffs which contain lots of chlorophyll is generally a good source of magnesium.

Many research results show that the chlorophyll has antimutagenic properties (preventing the spread of cancer-causing genes). The nature of this happened because the chlorophyll binding compounds can inhibit the reaction of carcinogens with DNA, and counteract the radical reaction of compounds. Chlorophyll can also protect the immune system through its ability to reduce the reactivity of radical compounds.

One study showed that chlorophyllin, a substance derived chlorophyll, is capable of binding aflatoxin B1 can inhibit the occurrence of liver cancer. The results Benitez and Wens (1996) showed that chlorophyllin is very effective in reducing superoxide anion (free radical species), whose capacity is higher than the beta-carotene or vitamin C.

Kiwi also contains inositol, which plays an important role in intracellular responses to hormones and neurotransmitters. Some research indicates that inositol supplementation helps lung function in premature infants and adults suffering from depression. Kiwi also contains serotonin, a substance that causes a calming effect.

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The Rising Threat of Disease Stress

Udayana University psychiatry expert from Prof. Dr. Luh Ketut Suryani say, natural disasters and political instability of the social conditions experienced by humans today become a trend sparked an increase in disease stress.
    
"These conditions eventually made the traumatic prolonged causing anxiety, fear and loss of confidence and it is the symptoms of stress," said the doctor's psychiatric expert on the sidelines of the VI National Congress, the Association of Specialist Medical Life Indonesia, Manado.
    
Suryani said the current condition of society may be regarded as unstable, loss of possessions, family relatives in the quake. Then the political conditions at the elite level is not conducive to stimulating the public to be weak in psychology which then impact on the thinking patterns that are less good.
    
"Especially if it looks visually at any time, could stimulate a poorly thought eventually depression," he said.

Suryani exemplifies how a series of disasters rocked psychiatric communities. Aceh tsunami killed hundreds of thousands of people, then the earthquake in West Sumatra that killed thousands of people, not to mention the dissension among the elite and state officials that never ended.

That's all, Syriac word, resulting in a lot less passionate people in running their lives. Not to mention the actions of the mobilization period to conduct large-scale demonstrations are also highly influential on human psychology, even judged could add to the burden of suffering.

"In principle people have too much difficulty in carrying out this life, if then coupled with actions that invite the masses, might be mad because people will assess the condition of the country is not safe," he said.

To anticipate in order not to affect the psychological, Syriac suggest reduced impressions about behaviors that can stimulate the disruption of psychology such as violence, the bodies and blood.

If it is often absorbed by the brain (about the bad stuff) can stimulate mental illness, she explained.

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Want Pregnant? Try More Relax

Try to relax and stress-free! That is old advice is often given to women who crave the middle of pregnancy.

Recommendation to avoid stress is often provided by friends and family to those who want a pregnancy. Although that advice is often to no avail, never even encouraged by some of the obstetricians and doctors alike.

But now, the advice now could no longer be underestimated. Even researchers in the United States should declare the ladies run this advice.

Alice Domar, the manager of a Fertility Clinic in Boston and worked at Harvard Medical School, found that women who followed a stress management program, while undergoing fertility treatment, has shown an average increase chance of pregnancy is 160 percent greater than those who only use a test tube baby technique (in vitro fertilization / IVF).

"The reproductive health experts have long worried about the effect of stress on fertility rates, which can hinder a woman to get pregnant," Domar said in a statement.

"The study's results indicate that stress management will improve pregnancy rates, reduce stress through fertility management itself, improve the success rate of IVF procedures and unconditional help eliminate the emotional burden on women who are facing a challenge exam to get pregnant," she said.

In his research, Domar involving 97 patients at his clinic were randomly selected to take part in a program of relaxation in the 10-sessions over undergoing IVF.

The program is not to influence how many women who became pregnant during the trial period, says Domar, But a woman who failed in the first experiment, it worked on the second trial. Recorded 52 percent following the relaxation program succeeded in getting pregnant, who did not join the program while only 20 percent.

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kinds of stress

Stress is a burden that afflicts our body and makes the body react in an emergency. We know of two types of stress. The first is physical stress, such as getting hit, vehicle collisions, exhausting working muscles and others. While the other is mental stress or pressure due to psychosis.

Whatever form of stress, both of which will stimulate the adrenal gland, which is one endocrine gland located attached to the top of both kidneys. Upon stimulation of this stress, the adrenal glands will release various types of hormones. Each hormone will have a special effect on metabolism, which is experiencing a state of emergency due to the stress load.

The first group of hormones that react to the various hormones known as the hormone group kortikostreroid class. Ie, the hormones produced by the cortex (outer part) of the adrenal gland. The hormones that belong to this group is cortisol, hydro-cortisone, prednisone, and so on.

While the other is a group of hormones epinephrine produced by the medulla (the center) of the adrenal gland. Included in this group is epinephrine.

On stress, in addition to an increase in the hormones of the adrenal glands, also an increase in the production of glucagon. That is a hormone produced by the alpha cells of pancreatic gland, which works to increase blood sugar levels.

Overcome Stress
Efforts to cope with stress is not easy, but try as much as possible to eliminate the cause. Or at least, can find a way out, so even though the root causes of stress is still there, but the negative impacts can be reduced. For example, by asking the help of a psychiatrist or a psychologist.

When the stress we face, including the first group, namely the stress that causes the reaction to hormones corticosteroids group, then the increase in appetite that occurs must be balanced with efforts to enforce proper eating habits.

Avoid the chance to eat if possible. Choose foods that are not too sweet, sugary and or made of refined flour, such as cakes and the like.

One type of food that should be avoided are foods made from flour made the dough, then fried or cooked with coconut milk as martabak, donuts, combro, risoles and so on. Avoid fried foods in general or any fatty foods / cooked with coconut milk.

Expand eat boiled vegetables, and fresh fruits. If 'forced' to party or eat in restaurants, wear antidote fat absorption. There is no downside if you ask the help of a physician nutrition specialist. Good luck.

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