{"id":2671,"date":"2013-04-25T08:41:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T08:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/responding-to-stress\/"},"modified":"2013-04-25T08:41:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T08:41:08","slug":"responding-to-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/responding-to-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"Responding To Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sometimes we have demands made on our body that we could hardly cope with. Other times we try to cope with such demands and barely able to perform as expected- that could be stress!<\/p>\n

There are so many reasons people get stressed and there are several stress-inducing events like death of a loved one, divorce, marital separation, personal injury or illness, marriage, being fired from work, retirement, sexual difficulties, major business readjustments, trouble with boss, change in residence or school, children leaving home, trouble with difficult teenagers, change in work hours or conditions, getting stuck in a traffic jam, family pressure, school runs, we can go on and on.<\/p>\n

How you react to the aforementioned situations will determine your overall stress level. Rigidity, aggression, withdrawal and disorganisation are likely responses to stress.<\/p>\n

Because the average person\u2019s life is full of responsibilities and complications, it is not reasonable to think that you can completely eliminate stress. There are, however, tools and techniques that can help to better cope with day-to-day stress.<\/p>\n

Can Stress Be Managed?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are many ways of managing stress, but I like to dwell on NUTRITION AND EXERCISE as strategies or ways\u00a0aimed at reducing the deleterious\u00a0effects of stress on the body.<\/p>\n

Nutrition:<\/strong> The common emotional eating triggers include depression, anxiety, boredom, loneliness, frustration and feeling of inadequacy. You must identify core issues\u00a0and look for a long term solution that will reduce or eliminate the emotions and induce nonproductive behaviours.\u00a0 \u00a0 To drive home this point, I think we should answer some questions with YES or NO<\/p>\n

\u2022 Does eating make you feel better when frustrated or overwhelmed?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Does eating help you calm down when you are nervous and stressed?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Do you often find yourself wanting to eat if someone criticises or disapproves of you?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Does eating soothe you when you feel sad?<\/p>\n

Analyse your results. If you have many \u201cYes\u201d answers, you should spend time tuning in to what is going on around you. Sometimes emotional eating is as simple as the fact that you have developed\u00a0some bad habits. Other times it\u2019s an issue of unhealthy self-talk massages overriding all your best attempts.<\/p>\n

From what we gathered so far, there is a relationship between work stress and obesity. Most times stressed workers resolve to overeating as an escape route to stress and the consequence is obvious obesity.<\/p>\n

Also over the years discoveries have been made to the fact that most people do not eat balanced diet because of the following short-coming confronting them.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Nature of work and time<\/p>\n

\u2022 Lack of time and proper eating habit.<\/p>\n

\u2022. Tight work schedule makes some people prone to poor eating habit as a lifestyle especially fast food vendors, poor nutritional programme.<\/p>\n

The best solution is to avoid overeating when stressed.<\/p>\n

Exercise:<\/strong> Physical activity has a positive effect\u00a0on health and longevity. It is important to ensure that you maintain an active lifestyle. Choose to move more every day, this will help you maintain a healthy lifestyle. If you eat and burn all day long with more frequent yet smaller meals and snack, your body will respond with higher energy.<\/p>\n

To commit yourself to a regular fitness programme, you must set goals that you know you can meet. If you do not currently exercise, start by planning to simply move your body thirty to forty minutes each day. Do something you enjoy: walk, dance, ride a bike, attend an aerobic class or jump rope.<\/p>\n

Aerobic exercise has a small to moderate effect on aspect of mood. There is a positive effect between moderate physical activity and psychological well being. Having exercise goals that relate to personal performance and improvement is associated with moderate to high positive emotion.<\/p>\n

Exercise is linked to decrease depression and physically active people\u00a0 are less likely to develop depression. Exercise can improve a person\u2019s self-worth and other important self-perception such as body image. Positive physical self-worth contributes to mental well being in its own right and should be considered a valuable exercise programme goal.<\/p>\n

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