Fight stress with food
Dr Anjali Mukerjee in Health & Fitness, Lifestyle
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When we are afraid, our metabolism speeds up, muscles tighten and our adrenal glands produce an extra quantity of stress hormones. We call this anxiety, a common emotion experienced by most of us in response to confrontation with an unpleasant and potentially harmful trigger.
When anxiety becomes an excessive and irrational dread of everyday situations and you begin to worry and feel tense without provocation, it can be a disabling disorder that needs medical attention. Read on» » » »
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