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Stress is a normal part of life. What really matters are how much stress, what kind of stress, and ultimately how each individual handles the stress they face. Long-term stress takes a physical toll because the body tries to find ways to adjust to metabolic changes. April is anger & stress management month, keeping in line this week we focus on Stress: a factor in abdominal weight gain.
In fitness
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Three times a week, perform some type of aerobic conditioning or circuit training for 20 to 30 minutes. Exercising the ab muscles twice a week is plenty. For example, perform your ab exercises every Monday and Thursday. Muscles become stronger and more firm through the process of adaptation. We stress the muscle and then it recovers and comes back stronger and better. The muscles need time to recover. Another reasons for sagging tummy is, bad posture. More than often, women have their shoulders falling and with the posture is beginning to lean forward. Practice healthy posture with your shoulders up and back straight while walking, sitting at your desk and exercising. Doing this while exercising helps flatten the belly.
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Completely behind
There are two parts to every burden. One is the burden
itself, and the other is how much of that burden you
internalize and take for your own. You cannot magically
transport yourself away from difficult circumstances.
Yet you can choose to see, understand and live the fact
that even the most difficult burden is not a part of who
you are.
The troubles you experience are merely that --
experiences. As difficult as they may be, they do not
need to become a part of you. Yes, you must pay
attention to them and do something about those
difficulties. Yet they are what you are working on and
they are not who you are.
You exist beyond every single difficulty, beyond every
burden, beyond every obstacle and overwhelming
challenge. And though it will likely require great
effort, you can rise above every one of them.
Though difficulties may consume your time, ravage your
body and deplete your resources, they need never tarnish
your soul. You are always free to experience the
difficulties while at the same time living beyond them.
And by so doing, eventually you will leave them
completely behind.
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"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes of it."
-John Ruskin
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Healthy Recipe
Turkey Pitas
Makes: 8 servings
Ingredients:
1/4 cup lemon juice
1-1/2 tablespoons non/lowfat margarine
1-1/2 teaspoon olive oil
2 red peppers, cut into strips
3 zucchini cut into strips
1-1/4 pounds smoked turkey, cubed
3 tablespoons water
6 pita bread loaves
Directions:
Boil lemon juice in a saucepan over medium heat for 2-3
minutes.
Add margarine and stir until melted.
Heat oil in a skillet over medium-high heat.
Add bell pepper, zucchini and turkey and sauté 2-3
minutes.
Add water and sauté another 3-4 minutes.
Drizzle with lemon margarine.
Cut pitas in half and stuff with turkey and vegetables.
Nutritional Information:
Serving size: 1 pita
Calories: 370
Fat: 5 g
Cholesterol: 50 mg
Protein: 30 g
Carbohydrates: 55 g
Fiber: 5 g
Sodium: 850 mg
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Stress: a factor in abdominal weight gain
Stress can affect virtually any part of the body and produce physical, mental and emotional symptoms including allergies, dizziness, headache, heart palpitations, environmental sensitivity, impaired coordination, impaired immunity and weight gain.
In a healthy body, carbohydrates
are converted to glucose and a blood glucose
level of 60-120mg/dl is maintained without thought to the dietary consumption
of carbohydrate. In the glucose intolerant population, carbohydrates are readily
converted to glucose and the pancreas responds to this shift in blood sugar by
secreting an excessive amount of the hormone, insulin. Insulin’s job is to
remove the glucose from the blood stream and help it to enter the body cells. If
done properly, the blood glucose level returns to the normal range regardless of
the amount of carbohydrate consumed. If this system is not working correctly, a
quick rise in blood glucose followed by an over production of insulin occurs.
The excessive insulin is not recognized by the body cells so is unable to remove
the glucose from the blood stream. The result is an increase in blood insulin
levels, which has an
appetite
stimulating effect.
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