Stress Management Made Easy

By Dr. Zen-Jay Chuang

Life is full of stressful events.

When you encounter a threatening situation, your body reacts with a stress response that helps you avoid or make it through the situation. The stress response initiates a cascade of changes that tenses up your muscles, speeds up breathing and heartbeat, increases blood pressure, and revs up energy production.

This "flight-or-fight" reaction helped our ancestors deal with life or death circumstances, such as escaping from

Stress Is A Natural Part Of Life

By Randy L
Anyone who tells you that you can eliminate all your stress is either lying to you or is just plain wrong. Stress is a natural process your body uses to learn how to deal with life. It can never be stopped but it can be channeled into something manageable. I find that my stress comes from holding in my emotions, not laughing when I see something funny, not crying when I'm sad, or not yelling when I'm angry. Keeping these things bundled up inside can let stress take over your life in a not healthy way. I know of course you can't go around laughing, crying, or yelling. At least not in public, but you can channel your emotion into other forms of release.

How to Relieve Stress

By Jafar Adam 

Stress affects millions of people worldwide and all of us suffer from it almost daily in our lives. While some people may be more prone to it than others, it is something that is inevitable regardless of the mental strength we possess.
Feeling stressed is natural and experiencing a little bit of it causes no harm. In fact, some experts suggest that stress may actually be beneficial for health. However, while a small amount of stress is considered beneficial, chronic stress is not. People who constantly feel stressed out due to various

How to Lose Fat - Easy and Stress Free

By Carolina Roger Manroe 

You find yourself gaining weight and experiencing more difficulty fitting into some of your clothes. What do you do? You get into this sort of crash diet. While you do lose weight almost instantly, you're actually not doing your body any favors.
Immediate loss is unhealthy. To get into tiptop shape, you need a change in lifestyle. Remember, it takes more than just fat loss. Healthy weight loss also requires that you gain some muscle. But before

Managing Stress With Diet

By Shira Litwack 
When we are stressed our body thinks it is the goalie in game 7 of the Stanley cup game. Our heart rate can soar, breathing is erratic, our stomach can knot like a noose (the true meaning of a gut instinct), and yes our blood sugar rises.

Making the right food choices will not make our boss a nicer person reducing our stress at work, or make our kids listen any better, however, healthy nutrition is one of the many ways we can protect

Conquering Combat Stress

By Carole Herbster, Psy.D. 

As a Psychologist working on a military base, there wasn't a day that went by that I didn't hear, 'Ma'am, there is really something wrong with me. I think I am going crazy.' Since returning from deployment over eight months ago, this marine hasn't been able to sleep or concentrate.
As the month's passed, his anxiety started to increase until it hit a crescendo - a panic attack. He fears that any minute, another panic attack will happen. On top of all of this, he feels that he has failed

How to Combat the Stress of Violence

By Gina M Dawson 

I was startled awake from my daily 15 min. power nap by a phone call from my husband. He told me that there had been two explosions at the Boston Marathon. One of our sons was running in the marathon and my thoughts instantly turned to him. I was so proud to hear of his courage to run this race of all races. The Boston Marathon had long been in my mind the ultimate triumph. Now I was worried about him and wondered if he was safe. I texted our daughter and asked if he was alright. She

How To Eliminate Stress Eating and Lose Weight

By Ian Newton 
If you are an emotional stress eater then there is a solution for you. Stress is a feature of everyone's lives, there is no escaping it and no avoiding it.

Some people stop eating when stressed, but for many people who struggle with their weight, opening the refrigerator door is a natural reaction to feeling stressed. When stressed our adrenals secrete cortisol.

Break the Connection Between Food and Stress With Weight Loss Hypnosis

By Eli Bliliuos 

There is a proven link between stress and overeating. There is also a link between celebration and overeating. Whether life is up or down, for many people the result is way too much food. If you have a life that is full of ups and downs, chances are you have gained more weight than you want. This is where hypnosis for weight loss can help.
Studies have shown that hypnotherapy for weight loss can be extremely successful. Hypnosis accesses your subconscious mind and allows for a shift in the way you connect with food. In this open and focused state, you are highly suggestible. Your hypnotist will talk to you about your eating habits and then though a variety of techniques including regression and neuro-linguistic programming, the

How Do I Lose Weight Without Stress?

By Dirk Westhuizen 

If you have run the gauntlet of the various weight loss plans out there, you will hopefully be ready for something simple. The sums of money spent on dieting plans are mind-boggling. The tragedy of all this is that very few, if any, of these magic plans are actually effective permanently.
 We live life at a crazy pace and seldom have time to follow methodical, complicated, weight loss plans. The majority of weight loss regimens require strict self-discipline and a battle with constant hunger.

Want To Lose Weight Without Stress? Try These Effective Weight Loss Tips

By Patrick Ebi Embale 

There is a lot of information out there on the best ways to slim down. As a result, many people are confused about what they should do. The article below shares practical advice for losing weight and keeping it off. While these are of course only a few suggestions, they should prove a good starting point.
Once you've eaten your

How Stress Can Make You Fat

By Bob Giddy 

If you are like most people you've probably gone through difficult periods in your life, if you have, you may have noticed that you put on weight, even if you were actually eating less. The fact is that stress can make you fat.

Relationship Between Stress and Weight Loss

By Robyn M. Cooke 

So many women today are overworked, overwhelmed, overstressed and as a result, overweight. In addition to weight gain, stress is also the cause of anxiety, depression and insomnia.
 According to the American Psychological Association, "More than half of all women say they are highly stressed." This is an increase of 25 percent from four years ago.

The even bigger problem is that some women have become addicted to stress believing it to be synonymous with success. The mindset of many women is that if they aren't working every moment of the day then they are lazy. For others, it's a moral issue if they aren't pushing themselves into maximum overdrive. This is when stress and weight loss become a steady state of being.