Stop the world, please!!

Sometimes we have to face problems and not all of us respond in the same way. We are genetically programed to our body prepares itself to fight or flight, like any animal. The way that it prepares itself is stimulating the sympathetic nervous system wich increasing the heart and respiratory frequency, dilating pupil and bronquial tube, stimulating suprarenal glands and redistributing the blood to your limbs. This status was ideal when in the past we had to face with big animals or rival tribes but now it's another adaptation mechanism that bring us problem (like the obesity).

Each person has an threshold of stress, and can express or/and relieve it of varied ways. Today, the most common situations of stress are the job, the school, the public transport, unexpected situations, and any other that involve pressure. When those stimuli are constant (what often happen), it's added to the previously mentioned effects, such as headache, upset stomach, increase of acne, sexual dysfunction foul temper, muscular pain, fatigue, anxiety, insomnia, inmunological derpression and psicological depression among other (this changes can be explained in part by cortisol hormone and its interactions). Complications like that produce a decrease in the labor efficiency and some companies have added anti-stress programs. It shows clearly why the stress have clinical relevance.

The farmacological treatment involve anxiolytics or tranquilizing like benzodiazepines.

On another hand, other treatment involve relaxation and respiratory techniques, cognitive-behavioral techniques, self-control techniques, electrical stimulation, acupuncture and massage.

Catharsis to me is the best way to relieve the stress, it can be shouting, hit a pillow, dancing, etc, only when don't affect your health or the health of another person.

Well, I hope you are not stressed.

Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy soul

These days we are surrounded by temptations that frequently lead us to bad habits. Bad habits may be defined like actions and behaviors that damage aour health in short or long term.

The most common bad habits for attraction and/or comfort are: to eat junk food frequently acompainied with soft drinks, to be sedentary, to smoke, to drink liqueurs, not wash your hands, among others. All these habits can produce us deseases such as hypertension, obesity, respiratory deseases (COPD), and predisposition to suffer traumatological deseases.

The way to prevent thoseproblems and to improve your healthy is, first avoid this habits and behaviors, and second to bring a healthy lifestyle. A healthy lifestayle involve have habits and beahviors that protect your body. They include: neither to smoke nor drink liqueurs, to do exercises and eat well.

It's proved that smoke and liqueurs lead to problems mainly in the liver, respiratory system and cardiovascular system mainly. They produce addction too and frequently they are consumed together.

There are several ways to do exercise. You can walk more or use a bike to move, change the time you use to watch TV for time to play with your family and to do axercises together, use stairs instead of mehanical stairs or elevator, become accustomed to execute a little rutine of exercises daily or every other day.

Finally, you have feed well, eating more fruits and vegetables in the breakfast, lunch and dinner; eating low fat, consuming foods lows in calories; and recall don't to eat in excess.

I hope you feel better.