Kinetic Movement and Stress Relief

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Muscle shortening stress

We all experience stress from various situations of life, which manifests itself in a contraction of bodily muscles, especially of the spine, causing muscle shortening of the body, caused by stress.

Muscle shortening also stress when it comes to perform an action that provides the body prepares difficult to generate tension and shortening the muscles of the spine.

Each time an action is accompanied by an unnecessary effort, it tends to shorten the body.

That tension, that effort superfluous, prevents the body properly organized for action, is used by both trying to overcome the lack of capacity with a large energy expenditure. Read the rest of this entry »

Cancerous tumors are related to the stress

According to a recent study by two leading American universities, stress could have an important bearing on the development of tumors in the body.

According to a recent study conducted jointly by the University of Connecticut and Yale, stress and cancer may have a much closer relationship than previously thought. Read the rest of this entry »

Social stress accumulates fat in the abdomen

Studies of the Faculty of Medicine of Wake Forest University suggests that stress induces bear too fat to accumulate in internal organs and abdomen, with the risk of cardiovascular disease.

The research was done on a community of monkeys which recorded that they were subordinate in the social scale, were assaulted and were not included in the grooming sessions that develop these animals.

The subordinate monkeys in this study developed more fat in the abdominal cavity than the others. The study also indicates that all the monkeys were fed a typical Western diet with excess fat and cholesterol.

Again we see that obesity and many other diseases, are caused by many causes. In this case, bad food there is also an important factor of social stress. Read the rest of this entry »