We know that stress plays a great role in the degenerative disease process. Let me tell you about an interesting study concerning stress. A doctor at Stanford University and one at Berkeley recently published some research on cancer which they had studied over a ten-year period. They studied forty women with breast cancer between the ages of 45 and 55. They had a very controlled group. They divided the patients in half. One group received therapy and the other group did not. The group who received therapy started asking their doctors questions and began to take charge of their lives. This was one of the things that their therapists felt that these cancer patients lacked. Every week they came in for a therapy group and discussed how things were going. Strangely enough, the patients' diets were not changed. They only received stress-reduction therapy. They were taught how to take control of their lives. The other half of the group of breast cancer patients got no therapy at all. At the end of ten years, forty per cent more people in the stress-reduction group were alive, and the doctors had to conclude that there was 'something' to this stress-reduction therapy. We all know that there is more than just 'something' to it. If you are sitting down to a meal of the best food in the whole world, a little beans, a little potatoes, a little protein, a nice salad, and you are angry, or you are stressed for some reason, you had better push the food away, go run, or meditate, or deep-breathe, and do something to remove the stress. Stress upsets the body chemistry just like sugar does. It will change the minerals, the food won't digest, the undigested food will get into the bloodstream and cause the immune response and cause allergies. So do not eat under stress. Don't watch the news either. Turn on Beethoven or something like that.
Nancy Appleton is a nutritional consultant and author from Santa Monica, California. She lectures extensively throughout the United States and Canada on nutrition, and has written two popular books, "Lick the Sugar Habit" and "Healthy Bones".
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