Add These To Your Diet To Prevent Stress

Just in case you missed it..April is Stress Awareness month.

Throughout this month (not much different from other months), there will be a special focus on ways to reduce as well as manage stress.  This blog offers information about stress and pain because the two are so closely connected. However, for April we'll deal with the stress because if you can get that under control, you have a better chance of avoiding the pain side of things.

Let's deal with diet.  Nature has provided a number of natural foods to help keep stress levels in check. Here are some:

Wheat Germ

Whole Grain Pasta

Chicken

Milk

Fruits

Green Leafy Vegetables

These foods have something in common.  They all have the capacity to increase your body's tryptophan levels which in turn increase your seratonin levels.  Seratonin is known as the "happy hormone," helping to balance stress levels while Tryptophan is the hormone responsible for giving the Seratonin hormone a boost. So in essence, you can't have one withought the other.

Increase your dietary intake of the above mentioned foods to help balance stress levels for the long haul.

Michelle H Smith is a stress and pain management professional, published author and New York Wellness Examiner. If you liked this post, she's got 10 days worth of stuff to share on ways to actually relieve stress.