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If your way of handling stress is to devour a bag of potato chips (because creeping that poor little potato in the submission feels oh-so-well), read it. Do not hesitate to feed your anxiety with theseEat this, not that!-Approved, relieving stress and drinks (in reason). Stash them in your snack-drawer so you can catch a snack and return to work, refitted, refocused and less submerged. Even if your stress sends you in Overdrive snack, none of these choices will not derail yourweightloss Efforts, leaving you something less to fear.

Really, we are not screwed with you. A study on the Nestlé Research Center (of course) revealed that those who considered themselves "strongly stressed" had lower levels of cortisol and stress catecholamines in their system after two weeks of chocolate every day for two weeks. Do not worry, we checked another study just to check, and they also found that dark chocolate buffers the effects of stress in humans. So it's official; Break a place to celebrate. (For some dark chocolate snacks, check out our list ofgood snacks And do you store for the next week of work.)

Strawberries are surprisingly high in vitamin C, which has been proven to have a significant effect on stress levels. The increase in vitamin C consumption has been proven to help people cope with stressful situations. Cortisol levels (one of the stress hormones) decreased rapidly in subjects on vitamin C supplement and the arterial pressure of the study participants returned to normal faster in the Vitamin C group than in the a group of witnesses.

If you do not like fish, you have a good reason to be stressed. But you can get the same benefits of an omega-3 supplement. A study on the University of Ohio State found that students who took regular supplements from omega-3 had a 20% reduction in their levels of anxiety, compared to students without fish and n 'have not taken supplements.

If you know you have a great day to come, consider having a LOX with salmon breakfast on your salad. He will fight the submerged feelings of stress and will keep you concentrated, so you can nail this presentation or afternoon meeting.

Once you go black, you never talk about tea, I just want to be clear. A 2007 study published in the journalPsychopharmacology found that black tea drinkers are better able to handle the stress than their herbal counterparts. Not only were black tea drinkers were generally less stressed, they could also bring their bodies back to homeostasia faster after a stressful situation than non-black tea drinkers.

Nuts are crunchy, so there is a stress relief activity for you. More importantly, nuts are high magnesium, a vital nutrient when it is the natural adaptation mechanism of our body. (The leafy greens are another big source of magnesium. So on the trend options? Try these greens who are healthier thankale.) The majority of us are deficient of magnesium, the adult GDR is between 320 and 420 mg daily and the average American gets about 250 mg per day. A current sign of magnesium deficiency is an inability to handle stress and physical ramifications of this such as high blood pressure, insomnia, fatigue or loss of appetite. Go ahead, eat this PB & J, it will calm you down.