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Solve your problems and face your stress
Stress can be easier to overcome as you realize what is stressful in your life. Are you doing too much at your job? Are you finding it hard to find work? Do you want to get your house cleaned up but your children won’t help?

The stress in your life can always be changed. The stress in your life doesn’t mean you are stuck in this rut. You can change your feelings of stress by leaving those problems behind and changing what you do and how you do it.

Keep yourself busy, fight off those urges to help everyone do every thing, and lessen the stress in your life.  Make sure if you do have quick foods around the house, they are pre-cut vegetables and salads, not cake and cookies and candy.

If you are trying to quit smoking, and fear the stress levels and weight gain, use carrot sticks and celery to keep your mouth busy.  Brush your teeth after every meal—the minty taste is nice but discourages noshing.

Try sugarless gum as well to keep your mouth busy. The act of chewing is also fairly relaxing for us, as it is with dogs.

I also use Australian chewing sticks to stop myself from eating when stressed. They come in regular tea tree oil flavor, or cinnamon. They are a birch bark toothpick infused with the natural oils, and you can use them to massage your gums like flossing, and to help get the food out from between your teeth after eating if you can’t brush or something gets stuck.

The strong flavor tends to remove good cravings and is quite relaxing, and keeps your mouth busy. They are great for preventing mindless eating.

Knowing your stress triggers and having strategies in place to help you cope, will help you avoid mindless eating, and unhealthy comfort eating.

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Have you ever had a big meeting coming up, grabbed something unhealthy to eat in order to try to get yourself through it?

Many people use readily available junk food to take their edge off their hunger, but also to try to lessen the feeling of stress we have to some degree every day.

Men, women and children alike are constantly eating unhealthy things as an unconscious method of relieving stress. If you are under a lot of pressure and you find that you are reaching for the goodies, the chips, or snack foods, you will gain weight soon enough if you haven’t already.

Your weight gain will only add to your stress, and will get even more stressed by the  medical problems associated with gaining weight.

Who is at risk for overeating due to stress related incidents?

One type of industry that is stress related is the truck driver. The truck driver is constantly on the go, on the road, fighting traffic and deadlines among other things. The truck driver who is under stress will eat to stay awake, and will eat to calm his or her nerves. They are also sitting all day and seldom have time for exercise.  Many truck drivers find they are quickly overweight and need to lessen the stress in their lives so they will eat less.

Depending on food for comfort is nothing new. New mothers, and those who care for children, often times find their selves under a lot of stress. If you are finding you grab a piece of food every time you feel stressed, your over eating is compensating and covering up how you really feel about a situation.

One thing is for sure, we all want to look our best now that the warmer weather is here, and we certainly don’t want to carry around more extra pounds than we have to, for it is a strain on the whole body.

If you don’t believe me, do the bag of flour experiment. Get a 5 pound bag of flour, put it in a plastic bag, and carry it with you EVERYWHERE for one day, the shower, the bathroom, work, dinner, exercising, in bed, walking, everwhere. You will soon get sick of it.

Now think of that 5 pounds as extra weight on your body that you are carrying everywhere. How much easier would your life be without it.

Now be honest. Are you actually carrying MORE than 5 pounds of extra weight on your body? HOW MANY bags of flour are you lugging around all day?

If you find that you are more than 20 pound overweight, you definitely need to think about healthy eating.

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With the pace of medical research accelerating each year, and thus so much health information in the news, it can be a bit overwhelming trying to sort fact from fiction, and attempting to cram all of the To Dos into your busy day. Eat right exercise, drink enough water, get enough fiber, try to get enough sleep…

It sounds like that commercial with the woman jogging on the treadmill and eating a huge hunk of broccoli at the same time!

Yet because we ARE so busy and stressed in our daily lives, there has never been a time when keeping up with the latest health information is so important for your overall wellbeing.

The goal of this nutrition blog is to help you do just that, empowering you with the best advice on nutrition to help you stave off many health conditions that impact your life, but can be influenced by a good diet rich in nutrients and disease-fighting properties.

With the recent and sudden passing of Tim Russert and George Carlin from heart disease, we can see now more than ever that heart disease IS preventable.

If it runs in your family, you will want to take steps NOW, no matter what your age, to stave off heart disease and other family illnesses, before it it too late.

If you are already struggling with a medical condition, now might be the time to look at your lifestyle to determine whether or not you need to tune up your healthy eating regimen a bit more.