{"id":270736,"date":"2010-02-03T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/03\/stress-relief-exercise-is-better-than-wine\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T07:45:00","slug":"stress-relief-exercise-is-better-than-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/270736","title":{"rendered":"Stress Relief: Exercise is Better Than Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/advice\/\" rel=\"tag\">Advice<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/fitness\/\" rel=\"tag\">Fitness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/ask-a-fitness-expert\/\" rel=\"tag\">Ask a Fitness Expert<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/02\/stress-relief-240.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Dear Sarah, <\/p>\n<p>Help! My job has become very stressful, my company has me making cuts and laying off employees. At the end of the day, I often find myself on the couch drinking a very large glass of wine. I think that exercise could help (more than the wine) undo some of this anxiety. What would be the best type of exercise to relieve my stress? Georgia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nDear Georgia, <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very true that exercise can help relieve your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=stress\">stress<\/a>, even more than wine! In fact, it&#8217;s one of the greatest side effects of exercise in addition to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=weight%20loss\">weight loss<\/a>, improved cardiovascular health, stronger muscles, better sleep, a more positive self-image and reduced anxiety &#8212; all of which really means less stress. Exercise can make a significant impact on controlling your stress because physical activity stimulates neurotransmitters (produced in the brain), which help mediate mood, emotions and hormones &#8212; particularly the main <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=stress%20hormone\">stress hormone<\/a> called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=cortisol\">cortisol<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/03\/stress-relief-exercise-is-better-than-wine\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Stress Relief: Exercise is Better Than Wine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/03\/stress-relief-exercise-is-better-than-wine\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19340542\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/03\/stress-relief-exercise-is-better-than-wine\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Advice, Fitness, Ask a Fitness Expert Dear Sarah, Help! My job has become very stressful, my company has me making cuts and laying off employees. At the end of the day, I often find myself on the couch drinking a very large glass of wine. I think that exercise could help (more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}