How Stress Affects Your Health

Wondering How Stress Affect Your Life?

Stress can strike anyone.   It is a natural part of life.   It can help us be at our best or it can bring us down to our worst.   How stress affects our health is by increasing blood pressure, keeping us up at night, to mental issues as well.   Stress can also cause chronic health issues as well.   It can affect our immune system, give us heart trouble, help us gain weight AND keep it on, etc.   So as you can see reducing stress does not only help you mental but can have long term health benefits as well.   A good article has more:

By Nick Tate
From NewsMaxHealth

“Job demands. Family squabbles. Relationship troubles. Financial pressures. All are common causes of stress, with studies showing at least two out of three Americans report experiencing moderate to high levels of it over the past month.”

Read the full article here http://www.newsmax.com/Health/Headline/stress-health-heart-cancer/2015/03/03/id/627928/#ixzz3TRdkVX1X

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Wondering how stress affects your life?

Still don’t believe stress can have that big of an impact on your life?   Take something that you worry about EG your job, bills, projects, etc and then imagine your life without it.   Does the thought of that stressor not being in your life give you a feeling of relaxation?   If so then that is how stress affects you.   You might benefit from stress reduction exercises.   For more please visit our certification in stress management consulting website.

How Stress Affects Your Appearance

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How Stress Affects your body and appearance.

 

American Institute Health Care Professionals‘s insight:

How Stress Affects Our Physical Body.

Chronic stress can change your physical appearance.    How stress affects your looks is by changing the levels of cortisol in your body.   Cortisol is a hormone that can have negative effects on your physical appearance.   Other stress related problems include; accelerated aging, dry or dull skin, weight gain, acne, and brittle nails.  Stress can also add weight and make it near impossible to lose.   It affects men and women differently.   Men tend to store their stress weight in their stomachs whereas women normally store stress weight in their legs and thighs.

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