NutritionVista dietitians explain the dangers of work-related stress and provide easy solutions

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Stress triggers addictive habits like overeating, smoking and drinking. "It's hard to pull stress apart from other things, because stress triggers many of the standard risk factors like smoking and poor diet,'' says Sheldon Cohen, psychology professor at Carnegie Mellon University and the lead author of the JAMA commentary. "But it may be really quite an important predictor of health."

Stress also has a more physiologic effect on the body as it releases cortisol, a stress hormone that may weaken the body's immune defenses. The Carnegie Mellon, study asked volunteers about the stress in their lives and then injected them with a cold virus. Those participants who had reported very little chronic stress didn't get sick - but volunteers who said they experienced chronic stress for a month or longer were at far higher risk of falling sick.

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13 July, 2010 | Ashwin | Reply

I have severe pain in my arms it began as a dull pain in my palms and now its radiating all over my arms. I have gone through a complete medical check up, I was a newly detected diabetic but my arm or hand pain was cleared and was advised observation and physiotherapy. I was told that both my diabetes and hand pain is due to stress. can it be possible

13 July, 2010 | Geetanjali Kelkar | Reply

Dear Ashwin

Yes, its true that stress is one of the cause for diabetes and even pain. Increased stress releases hormones cortisol, growth hormone and norepinephrine. Rise in the levels of these hormones affects the metabolic system and can cause severe depression, body aches, hypertension and diabetes if you are pre-disposed to these ailments. Its important for every individual to learn to beat stress through physical activity, meditation, music therapy and keep these ailments at bay
Geetanjali Kelkar
Dietitian
NutritionVista

18 June, 2010 | Geetanjali | Reply

Low to moderately intense exercise is known to alleviate anxiety and stress. Exercise releases endorphins that help in relieving stress. A study from University of Missouri suggests that high intensity exercise is the best way to reduce anxiety and stress that lead to heart disease. However, people who already have heart disease should exercise at low to moderate intensity

Geetanjali Kelkar,PhD
Dietitian
NutritionVista

18 June, 2010 | Vijayalakshmi Iyengar | Reply

Smokers should stop deluding themselves that smoking helps them deal with stress, as a new study has found that after a person quits smoking his/her chronic stress levels go down .
Results from a study of 469 smokers who tried to quit after being hospitalised for heart disease, showed that those who abstained for a year showed a reduction in their perceived stress levels as against those who went back to smoking. To quote lead researcher Dr Peter Hajeck at London School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK `Smokers often see cigarettes as a tool to manage stress and ex smokers sometimes return to smoking in the belief that this will help them cope with a stressful life event. In fact smoking may create long term stress’.

18 June, 2010 | Ravi Mohan, | Reply

Hey! Does the intesity of exercise also affect stress reduction - what I am asking is if I do moderate exercise (jogging) do I reduce my stress quicker than if I do low impact (walking slowly) exercise.
I usually take 40 minute waling around my neighburhood park.

09 June, 2010 | Rohini | Reply

Very true..exercise is a great stress buster.

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