The relation between stress and health problems has long known by the experts. Fatigue, concentration problems, and increasing the body weight are less than the impact of stress. Now you can add one other disorder, namely increase in blood sugar. It happened because when we are stressed, your body will adjust. This adjustment effort will cause heart beat more fast, and shortness of breath. Blood sugar will also increase.

“Under the pressure of stress, our bodies will be in fight mode, or let that blood sugar will raise as a form of preparation for this condition,” said Richard Surwit, PhD, author of The Mind Body Diabetes Revolution.

Basically, the stress hormones in our body are designed only to deal with stressful a situation that is temporary such as traffic, deal with employment tests, or to meet future in-laws. Unfortunately, most of the stress we experience is chronic.

As a result, stresses hormones will be predators because have to endure long periods of time. Blood sugar was forced to constantly adjust to these conditions. For people with diabetes, increased blood sugar is a problem itself since they cannot produce the extra insulin to keep blood sugar.

The good news, relaxation nature sports and other stress management techniques can help us to control blood sugar levels.

In research done by experts from Duke University on 100 blood sugar patients on stress management classes, known after a year of their blood sugar levels stay awake and risk of diabetic complications was reduced.

The study respondents stress management classes which include muscle relaxation, breath processing, and learn to have positive thoughts.