Stress?? You need to take a breathe...

Stress is something really common these days. Every one is no doubt in stress, but its the time to manage stress properly and healthily. Stress nutrition deals with various kinds of food, which help us recover our body the all-important nutrients, vitamins and minerals to win the fight against stress. Stress nutrition is important for every one because its outcomes are found on the natural components which produced in foods provided to us by Mother Nature. It is not about consuming artificially created substances with dubious side effects in order to get stress relief - the only thing you have to do is to know the right foods to intake. Its strength stems from the timely matching of the active food components and the needs of human body in case of systematic stress.
In a situation, when we are really stressful we need to respond abruptly in order to find out the most exact solution. Commonly the so called fight response takes place, which is marked by the heart beating faster, drawing blood away from the stomach and extremities of the body, dilating the pupils of the eyes... Two important hormones, adrenaline and cortisol, are released into the blood system.
All these physiological variations should be supported by the respective nutrients, vitamins and minerals. If they are in short supply, dealing with stress can turn out to be a really tough task to do.In many long lasting stressful situations our body needs primarily all vitamins from the group B complex and vitamin C. The bad news about those vitamins is that all of them are water soluble so their reserves in the human body are subject to a constant depletion if not replenished on a daily basis. The good news is that almost all of the important vitamins in the group B complex can be found in one and the same foods.
Adding up, to the vitamins mentioned above in case of stress our body consumes abnormally two basic minerals - magnesium and zinc.
So in a stressful daily round the only thing we need to do is to strive eating foods containing those vitamins and minerals in abundance. For instance: for Vitamins B - whole grain bread; for Vitamin C - citrus fruits; for Magnesium - soybeans; for Zinc - beef.
Mother Nature has provided us with so many healthy and wholesome choices to help us put out stress and feeling happy. The only thing we need to do is to know its gifts and use them satisfactorily.