Everyday life can be stressful. Each person handles their stress problems differently but for some stress can become overwhelming. That is when your body reacts and the end result is “you getting sick”!
Over the Holidays it seems stress levels rise even higher than normal. Everyone is trying to” do it all”; decorate, cook, buy gifts and deal with visiting family!!
Stress is the demon of our daily lives!
Stress increases our cholesterol level.
Stress reactions thicken our blood.
Try instead to decrease stress. Leave some time for yourself to rest. Ask for family help; you don’t have to do it all by yourself. The rest of the family is sitting watching TV or playing games! Let them help.
Blend up some juices to help bring stress down and calmly sit, drink, and relax. You will be surprised how much it will help!
Pantothenic acid ( a Vitamin B) is lost during stress, use broccoli and kale to replace it.
Vitamin C is lost during stress; you can replace it with Red Peppers, Collard greens and Berries.
During stress the minerals, Zinc, Potassium and Chromium are also lost. Drink fresh juices and/or eating fresh vegetables like carrot, parsley, ginger and greens of spinach or swiss chard can replace lost minerals.
Beta- carotene helps protect the body during stressful times. Cooking with holiday veggies like sweet potatoes, pumpkin and other yellow or orange squash can also help.
Garlic and ginger are sources of natural blood thinners to dilute the thick blood of stress.
Enjoy your life, enjoy your family time. Take a breather, relax and enjoy the music!!
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Cynthia Burrows, from Austin, Texas, owns Cindy Burrows, Natural Health Consultant; assisting individuals with health issues they would like to change. She will set up a program giving choices of foods, herbs, teas and homeopathic suggestions. Cindy is past owner of Nature’s Healing Herbs, an Herbal, Green Tea, and Tincture product line, and a rare product line of Green Tea Foods. She has certificates for Herbalist at East West School of Herbology, and as Wellness Consultant with the Wellness Forum in Ohio.
Cindy is also a Medical Technologist, with a B.S. degree from Mansfield University in Mansfield Pa., she has been in healthcare for over 30 years. In 2005, she started using a new device founded in Europe, Quantum Biofeedback, “an energy rebalancing of the body”, by using our bodies electricity or frequency waves it can detect stress points in the body, she has added this to her consulting practice. She now has her Certification as a Biofeedback Specialist. She helps her clients by working with the synergy of herbs, food, homeopathy, and aromatherapy within her practice. She is a speaker, writer, and teacher. Cindy has been interviewed on TV; about the benefits of Green Tea and has been on radio about her small business tour to Ecuador.
Cindy has been an herbalist for over 20 years and has spent 6 years learning through the East West School of Herbology with Michael Tierra. She has studied Western, Chinese and Ayurvedic Herbs with a strong emphasis on nutrition. Along with many other continued studies of alternative and complementary medicine. She is a Certified Wellness Consultant, through a special program, The Wellness Forum, which has its nutrition program, now part of the curriculum at Ohio State University, providing educational seminars and workshops designed to impart relevant nutrition information to individuals to take control of their own health. These programs give healthier options and choices that can impact your longevity and quality of life. Cindy has been a speaker to many groups and has conducted many of her own classes on food and healthy life style programs.
Cindy has been involved with a hands-on healing program for the past 4 years and offers energy healing, through donation only, to anyone who needs her services.
She is Co-president of the Austin Herb Society and a member of the American Herbalist Guild. Cynthia has been a board member on many programs in the past including; La Sertoma, Arthritis Foundation, Toastmasters International, National Association of Female Executives, Handicapped Equestrian Learning Program, Entrepreneurs Association, and Austin Integrated Health Care Program.
Cindy also loves nature, animals, reading, blending teas, juices, etc.; likes to hike, and work with plants and, of course, cooking., mostly vegetarian.
Cindy has an adventurous streak.
She has organized and taken tours with business and artists groups to Big Bend, Texas, New Mexico, USA, and Ecuador, South America.
