Diet and Weight Loss Tips

Stress is closely related to anger, and where there is one, the other will follow immediately behind.

It is imperative to one’s health and well being that one learns to control one’s stress and the anger caused by the stress, so that one is able to develop the much coveted ability to let go of everything and relax and thereby become more productive members of society.

Anger may cause all or several of these symptoms: change in appetite, either an increase or a decrease, fatigue, breathlessness, nightmares, muscle pain, stress and the related symptoms of feelings of helplessness and vulnerability, feelings of rejection, and feeling that one is not being appreciated, general irritability and temper, being late for work regularly, neglecting one’s appearance, taking drugs of all kinds to counteract these feelings.

Experts recommend that anger and stress can be managed relatively easily if one were to talk and share these feelings with someone, either a close friend or relative, or a counselor who would help him see the way through the tension and achieve happy results at the end.

In addition, certain diets allow one to achieve some form of control over anger, and since this is a good way to start managing one’s anger, it would help to read these tips:

• Avoid eating fatty foods, and instead, opt for high fiber foods that provide you with the required amount of energy to work and perform efficiently during the day. Evidence has proved that when an individual is on a high fat diet, and undergoes a lot of stress, then he may be inadvertently paving the way towards developing arteriosclerosis.
• Eat healthy and balanced nutritious meals at least three times a day. If possible, try to include more complex carbohydrates in your diet, and remember, never skip a meal, especially never skip breakfast, which is in fact that most important meal of the day.
• Eat plenty of fresh fruits. They will provide you with enough sweet and energy to last you through the day.
• Eat lots of fresh green and leafy vegetables in whatever forms you prefer everyday.
• Avoid eating too much of sugar in whatever form you prefer it, and instead, drink fruit juices.
• Avoid consuming too much caffeine.
• Drink plenty of water through the day. This will keep you fresh and hydrated at all times, and when you feel fresh, you will find it difficult to let anger control you. You will, instead, learn to control and manage your anger so that you are able to function efficiently in your workplace and at home.

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Recent studies found that personality traits associated with worries and stress can lead to hazardous health problems.

Having worrying tendencies or stressful behaviors can also lead to earlier death because people with stressful personality traits are more likely to engage themselves in unhealthy habits such as smoking or drugs.

Daniel K. Mroczek, a professor of child development and family studies in Prude University, says that extreme levels of neuroticism can lead to earlier death.

The reason behind it was found as having worrying tendencies or being kind of a person with stressful behavior develops unhealthy behaviors like alcohol or smoking and hence raises their risk of earlier mortality.

Read full report on Eurekalert

Canadian research suggest that for heroin addiction treatment, injections with heroin as active ingredient work effective than oral methadone.

But, researchers warned that such kind of treatment carries a risk of seizures and overdose. So, it is recommended that the injections should only be given in a medical setting.

Eugenia Oviedo-Joekes of the University of British Columbia and colleagues reports that oral methadone provided according to best practice guidelines should remain as treatment of choice for patients. When it doesn’t work, heroin injections appears to be an effective option.

Oviedo-Joekes and colleagues studied 226 addicts in Montreal and Vancouver. Only 54 percent of those who got methadone stayed in treatment for a year, they found.

But 88 percent of those who got diacetylmorphine shots did. And those who got diacetylmorphine cut back on illicit drugs by 67 percent, compared to 48 percent who got methadone.

Read full report on Reuters