5 Foods that can help relieve stress

5 Foods that can help relieve stress

Many foods are known to get rid of stress, such as chocolate or ice cream. But there were other foods that can fight stress and make the body stay healthy.

As quoted in Shine, Thursday (22/10/2009), there are 5 types of food that can eliminate stress, namely:

1. Spinach
According to Beth Reardon, RD, nutrition experts from Duke Integrative Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, three bowls of spinach could supply 40 percent of magnesium, which is a mineral that can reduce the effects of stress on the body by preventing blood pressure rise. Enter the spinach in an omelet or a sandwich if you do not really like to eat it separately.

2. Oranges
Even healthy people who are stressed can get sick, according to a study conducted researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Potential influence of blood immune system. But it can be fought by regular consumption of vitamin C found in oranges lot. Vitamin C will increase the immune cells of the body and reduce the risk of viral entry.

3. Chocolate
It's no wonder more if chocolate is called the food stress. "Chocolate will increase the level of the neurotransmitter substances to the brain that will trigger the hormones expenses happy and relaxed makers such as dopamine," said Alan Hirsch, MD, director of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, Chicago.

4. Fish
Content of omega 3 in fish-sea fish such as salmon and tuna can improve your brainpower and reduce depression and dementia. In a study published in Diabetes & Metabolism, participants who ate fish during the 3 weeks of known anti-stress hormones out higher when performing some cognitive tests.

5. Whole wheat
Vitamin B is much contained in whole wheat hormone stimulates the production of serotonin, a hormone and neurotransmitter substance that will send soothing signals in the brain. Elisa Zied, RD, author of Nutrition at Your Fingertips said that whole grains your body will digest slowly so that the hormone serotonin, which was issued last.

The next time you are stressed try the consumption of these foods above.

Source: health.detik.com

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