Posts Tagged ‘Stress’

Stress is something or a kind of effect on our body which can bring long term impacts for the physical as well as mental health so handling stress at its early stages is very important.

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The effective stress management is a vital part of healthy living and it can also keep your heart in the top health.

The stress management is not a big issue but a little consistency and determination is required otherwise you can’t be able to get rid of the stress.

In this article some suggestions have been provided which can really prove to very effective for the people who are facing stress in their daily routine.

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A new survey has been designed around studying how moms feel about including fruits and vegetables in their daily diet. This survey conducted between January 18 and January 22, 2008 in collaboration between ‘Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH)’ and the ‘Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’ in cooperation with other partners. They choose a sample of women between the ages of 24 and 41, all of whom had at least 1 child under18 living in their household out of which 1,000 women responded to this online survey.

Around 70% of the women expressed happiness and satisfaction after eating healthy foods like fruits or vegetables. Extra sweetened foods or food laced with extra saltiness and spices are likely to trigger negative emotions like sadness or stress. They felt the same after consuming salty snack foods and heavy foods like cheeseburgers and also found themselves ridden with a feeling of guilt after eating sweets.

The researchers when compared the results of the different responses of moms, found that majority of the proportion of the women were happier and felt good about their own selves after consuming generous portion of vegetables and fruits.

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The size of a social network and family support not only promotes the general health and the wellbeing of a person but also helps in early recovery of a patient from an operation.A recent study supported the need of social support for patients recovering from serious surgical treatments. The research clearly indicated that the patients who have larger social networks and better support of family members and relatives not only depict lesser intense symptoms of post operative anxiety and pain as compared to those with limited networks and lesser family support but also recover soon after the major operations.

Allison R. Mitchinson, a health researcher in the ‘Department of Veterans Affairs’, at the ‘ Ann Arbor (MI) Healthcare System’ says that the strong social links can fasten the process of recovery among the patients who are suffering of the stress caused by postoperative pain. It also helps the patient to get rid of anxiety caused by separation from the family and concerns about health and finances involved in the operation.

Daniel B. Hinshaw who is a co researcher says that the link between limited social connections and larger intake of pain medications, longer hospital stays and need of an additional caretaker after an operation causing pain and anxiety among the patients should not be overlooked. So prior to the operation, the level of pain and anxiety among such patients should be taken into serious consideration as they largely determine the speed of the postoperative recovery.

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Scientists at the ‘University of Saskatchewan’ spotted a gene that which the plants in fighting against the stress. This is altogether a new discovery which could open an entirely new world of thought. It could lead to the development of those agricultural and forestry plants which could depict more tolerance towards the environmental strains like the ultraviolet light and other harmful radiations which affect the plant’s health.

This new revolutionary study conducted by a microbiologist Wei Xiao and a biochemist Hong Wang. Findings of this research study have been published in the January issue of the plant journal “The Plant Cell”.

“Arabidopsis”, a customary research model plant, closely linked to canola and already carried the four genes held of playing a role in the plant’s tolerant nature to take the environmental pressures. The researchers observed that the plants in which one of the four genes had turned off gave birth to the seedlings which showed slow growth and also died when they were exposed to a stressor which could easily damage the DNA of the plants.

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