Staying Healthy - Keeping Stress Away

Life is to live! And to live healthy.

With the world getting more advanced and fast paced, the expectations have also increased. Consequently, the competition to be on the top of the game is forcing people to resort to stressful living. In the race to be on the peak, health is being neglected by most of the community.

Healthy living and stress management go hand in hand. The best practice for you to manage your stress is never to forget that. In the best or worst events of life, you might not be able to achieve the intended goal of your life if your health is not up to the desired standards.

Secondly, balanced diet might seem like more of a dietary requirement, but your overall health depends on what you consume and how you consume it. Too much of one particular dietary substance can have negative impact on the health. You might think you are doing good to your body by eating less, but the key is to eat good and complementing it with appropriate physical exercise for your best health.

Moreover, your health and peace of mind will be certainly restored if you try to do good for the people around you. Giving back to the community in your own capacity reinstates the purpose of your life. The satisfaction gained from such work helps you to have better perspective of life.

As mentioned previously, merely eating less is not recommended, but you must have some physical exertion for the benefit of your health. A regular walk, workout, aerobics, or any activity that might take the pressure off you is your best bet. Not only will that keep your stress levels down, but also restores the active lifestyle and health for you.

Those who think that they are not healthy due to overweight, they should get in contact with some good nutritionist and never try to plan their own diet by eating less. Nutritionists always suggest the best mix suitable for your body. They would not recommend you to starve but suggest right amount of healthy food. For maintaining health, good food along with right quantity and timing is highly important.

Laughing and staying happy might sound a cliche, but it works well for everyone. Happiness can neither be bought, nor be sold. So, create that for yourself in little or big things.

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Stress can shrink your brain: Study

 Don't take stress or depression lightly, they can actually shrink the brain and contribute to both emotional and mental degradation, according to a US study.

Now researchers have discovered one reason why this occurs - a single genetic switch that triggers loss of brain connections in humans and depression in animal models.

The findings show that the genetic switch known as a transcription factor represses the expression of several genes that are necessary for the formation of synaptic connections between brain cells, which in turn could contribute to loss of brain mass, the journal Nature Medicine reports.

"We wanted to test the idea that stress causes a loss of brain synapses (junctions of nerve cells) in humans," said senior study author Ronald Duman, professor of psychiatry, neurobiology and pharmacology at Yale University.

"We show that circuits normally involved in emotion, as well as cognition, are disrupted when this single transcription factor is activated," he added.

The research team analysed tissue of depressed and non-depressed patients donated from a brain bank and looked for different patterns of gene activation, according to a statement from Yale.

The brains of patients who had been depressed exhibited lower levels of expression in genes that are required for the function and structure of brain synapses.

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