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Learn the Benefits of Good Nutrition on Stress. If a healthy person is fasting or starving, 90 percent of his or her calories will come from fat stores and only 10 percent from protein.

When a person is undergoing chronic stress, even if he or she is not injured or sick, only 70 percent of calories will come from fat stores and 30 percent will come from lean protein. There is a direct correlation between the breakdown of protein for fuel and the greater metabolic need for glucose during times of physical or emotional stress or trauma. To get the extra glucose, the body takes amino acids from lean muscle mass, converts them to alanine, and changes the alanine into glucose to be used by the tissues as an emergency energy supply.

Physiological stress can greatly increase metabolic requirements. For example, after surgery metabolic needs increase by 20 percent; following a serious infection or a traumatic injury, they increase by 50 percent. Following a well-balanced and nutritional diet such as the Fat-Burning Metabolic Fitness Nutritional Plan becomes even more crucial when you are suffering from the effects of illness or long-term stress.
Exercise to Reduce Stress
People who live with high levels of stress will be amazed at how effectively exercise combats stress. Stress is a killer because itstress_and_healthy_body undermines almost every system in the body, from the cardiovascular system to the immune system. Since I work with so many professionals whose jobs come with an unavoidable stress component, I am always gratified to see how greatly my Fat-Burning Metabolic Fitness Exercise Plan improves their ability to handle stress.
Bo Walker, the radio host who agreed to participate in a makeover for Let’s Live magazine, worked very hard at my plan and kept exercising even when the twelve-week makeover period was completed and the magazine articles had gone to press. Bo’s moment of truth came when the radio station announced that they were not renewing his contract. Suddenly, he was faced with the stress of being the forty-year-old unemployed father of a two-year-old child with financial, career, and self-esteem issues. Once his job had officially ended, Bo felt no motivation at all to go to the gym. But his wife, Lisa, told him, “You’ve got to continue doing this for your own sanity.” Not giving up on his exercise program turned out to be Bo’s greatest emotional stabilizer: “It kept my mind occupied. I knew I had someplace to go two, three days out of the week. The exercise was cathartic. It allowed me to keep my mind off losing my job. It did more than just make me feel physically better. It was an emotional boost as well. Once I was at the gym, I could do my routine. It put me back on the track again. It’s helped me through quite a bit.” Fortunately, Bo was only out of work for a few months. Sticking with his exercise program gave him the ability to reduce his stress and have the energy and focus he needed to find another job and get on with his life. The two forms of exercise offered in the Fat-Burning Metabolic Fitness Exercise Plan are specifically designed to deal with stress. If you must navigate a series of several stressful events daily, then the steadystate exercises on days 1, 3, and 5 will help to create greater emotional homeostasis so that you can cope better. If you are experiencing continuous stress, such as having to be the caregiver for someone in the family who is seriously ill, the core and interval exercises on days 2, 4, and 6 will enable you to achieve greater emotional and physical equilibrium.


Learn Gender-Specific Stress-Fighting Techniques
In 1994, the National Institute of Health mandated that both genders be more equally represented in the studies done by government and other medical research groups. One of the more interesting outcomes of that decision has been the discovery that men and women are biologically programmed to have different reactions to stress. When a research team at UCLA led by Shelley E. Taylor analyzed
hundreds of stress studies done since 1985, they discovered that men and women release different hormones during stressful situations that result in different styles of coping. Men usually respond with the classic fight-orflight behavior, increased arousal, and greater risk taking, which for many years had been considered the accepted model for both genders. However, it is now becoming clear that women more often manage stress by seeking out bonding activities.


The mechanism behind this response is the release of the hormone oxytocin. While the large amounts of testosterone produced in men during stress tend to counteract this hormone, estrogen enhances its effect. Oxytocin buffers the fight-or-flight response in women and instead encourages them to care for children and bond with other women. “Women are more likely to seek emotional comfort and solace by calling up a friend or rela-tive,” Taylor says. These tending or befriending behaviors cause the body to release more oxytocin, producing a further calming affect.


One of my clients who was diagnosed with breast cancer spent a lot of time talking with her friends and family during her months of treatment: “Cancer is a great shock to everyone involved, not just the patient. I discovered that my relatives and friends were just as stressed as I was, and my parents and siblings really felt helpless because they lived all the way on the other side of the country. But when we kept in touch by phone and e-mail, it helped us a lot. My friends also appreciated it when I told them how I was really feeling and what I needed. It helped them to cope with their fear and anxiety. Letting them comfort me or bring over some food made them feel calmer and more empowered because they were doing something for me.”
Another gender difference is that women tend to feel more day-to-day stress than men. The reasons for this can be seen in how women’s emotional lives are structured.

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- Women engage in more multitasking than men in their everyday lives. A man may be the father and breadwinner, but a woman is the
mother, career woman, housekeeper, caretaker, and friend and supporter of many other women. All of these activities take their toll,
creating greater stress.
- Women are more vulnerable to physical violence, mugging, and rape than men.
- For a woman to be happy, she has to be in a good relationship with all of the people who are important to her including her kids, her
spouse, her family, her coworkers, and her friends.
- Women are programmed to nurture, caretake, and defer to others, most often at the expense of their own emotional needs.
- Because nature designed women for child rearing, they are naturally hardwired to be more sensitive to their environment than men.

Stress Tips for Women
1. Get enough sleep at night.
2. Don’t skip meals. Have three square meals a day and two snacks.
3. Exercise regularly and at appropriate intensity levels for your gender.
4. Practice meditation or deep-breathing exercises for at least ten minutes a day.
5. Make time for yourself. Take a relaxing aromatherapy bath; listen to music; take a walk in a beautiful setting; do some gardening; buy yourself roses.
6. Try to be conscious of your needs and don’t always put yourself last.

Stress Tips for Men
1. Get enough sleep at night.
2. Don’t skip meals. Have three square meals a day and two snacks.
3. Exercise regularly and at appropriate intensity levels for your gender.
4. Take up a recreational sport to help alleviate competitional stresses in the workplace.
5. Do yoga to help dissipate the effects of continual muscle contraction. Men tend to have greater continual contraction than women of the fight-or-flight muscles and they need to elongate them.
6. Learn to walk through your fears. For example, take a public speaking course or a self-esteem workshop.

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Disclaimer: This website is for information purposes only. By providing the information contained herein we are not diagnosing, treating, curing, mitigating, or preventing any type of disease or medical condition. Before beginning any type of natural, integrative or conventional treatment regime, it is advisible to seek the advice of a licensed healthcare professional.

 

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