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Comfort Foods
The right diet can improve how you deal with stress. These five foods can help you relax.
BY MARY LAHR SCH I ER
Over the last few years, researchers have begun to uncover direct links between diet and stress. Unfortunately, they haven’t found any foods that can make stress vanish overnight. But they have confirmed that the right diet can help your body fight off the harmful effects of stress. Those effects are largely due to cortisol, a hormone your body produces when it’s stressed. And that’s where your diet can help. Foods high in nutrients such as vitamin C and magnesium can help lower cortisol levels. And other foods can play a role in boosting your mood, helping free you from chronic stress.
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