Emotional Stress

In your life emotional stress can come in positive and negative forms, marriage, deaths, separation, divorce, moving, getting a new jobs are all forms of stress. Whether positive or negative, our body is still affected with stress and enters the fight or flight reaction well described by Hans Selye, who was the first one to come up with the definition of stress. Your heart beat is increasing, blood pressure also, you are sweating to cool down and blood is taking away from secondary organs such as the digestive system, and is redirected with the adrenaline to your muscles to be able to run and save your life.

If you are trying to actually eat while you are stressed, this is why you are not digesting properly. It is never a good idea to eat when you are troubled, have negative emotions or feel some kind of stress. Wait that the emotions pass, and then only you can put foods in your body.

Stress does not have to affect you on a daily basis and its your own reaction to events which makes you create the stress response.

Before eating, de-stress!