Symptoms of stress can affect our bodies in the forms of headaches and some as migraines, fatigue, pains and tensions in our shoulders, neck and back, sleep disorders, digestive troubles, mood swings and lots of irritability, even sinus and allergy problems. Do any of these seem familiar in your body?
How about, we look at the nutritional side of these symptoms of stress? If we are not processing our healthy foods in our bodies, then our body is not receiving the proper nutrients to operate in the healthy mode. Are you eating lots of processed foods, are you cooking everything with salt and sugars, are you drinking lots of liquids that are either diet drinks with lots of sodium and preservatives or sodas with lots of teaspoons sugars in them?
Our bodies we designed and created to eat lots of raw, uncooked foods with the proper enzymes included. Enzymes are a most important part of the food we eat to aid our digestive processes. See this video for some very informational tips:
Digestive Enzymes, Nutrition and Your Health
, and elimination of toxins among many other functions. Enzymes exist in foods to help our body’s breakdown what we eat. Raw, uncooked foods are the only foods that contain enzymes. Since the majority of our diets are cooked foods, we significantly limit the enzymes available in our food for digestion, thus putting more stress on our digestive systems. Some supplemental enzymes should be taken with food to enhance digestion and absorption of nutrients, whereas other supplemental enzymes …
As you can see the importance of eating raw fruits and raw vegetables to get the very necessary enzymes is very important for yourself and your family. With proper digestion our bodies obtain the nutrients to help us cope with the symptoms of stress on an hourly and daily basis.
Symptoms of stress can be relieved by just drinking teas- Herbs are an amazing way to help us with our health matters. Watch this video for some great tips on making your teas taste the best and reap the most amazing benefits. Take a few minutes for yourself to relax and actually enjoy a cup of tea today. Feel the stress symptoms melt away. Set aside a few minutes to do just that, it definitely will help relief stress and increase our energies.
Supermarket Herbalism Day 3: Making Tea for Digestion & more
Supermarket Herbalism is a free 7 day eCourse available at LearningHerbs.com. These videos work with THAT course. Learn how to make herbal home remedies with Herbs and food you already have in your kitchen.
