Wellness experts at meQuilibrium, an online stress management solution, have mapped out 24 factors of stress—some that drag us down and others that lift us up. Drags can be work-life imbalance, feeling blah, worry and frustration. Lifts can be positive emotions, quality sleep and engagement at work.
Eating is so heavily implicated in stress that people who tend to eat when stressed and not make healthful nutrition decisions are worse on all 24 stress factors. In fact, compared with the healthiest eaters, the worst eaters have twice the stress drags in their lives and only about half the anti-stress lifts.
So, what can you do to eat more healthfully? The solution is not just about the food you put in your mouth; it has a lot to do with what thoughts you put in your head.
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