Chicken Soup and Stress

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Chicken soup is not just good for the soul, but also good for the body! If you are dieting, working out, or trying to be a bodybuilder, an occasional dose of chicken soup may give your immune system the boost it needs to get to the next level! Chicken soup is not low calorie if you have it with all the fixings (noodles, potatoes, chicken, pumpkin, etc.), but if you just drink the broth or broth with chicken, it can be a very powerful, nutritious, and low-calorie diet food! Back when I was working at ShiFu Pharmacy, there was a security guard at Dadeland Mall who lost about eighty pounds drinking chicken broth. Every night he would buy two cans of chicken broth (no noodles) and he drank that cold from the can because he had no place to microwave it. He was dedicated to his plan and determined to lose weight!

Scientists have confirmed that chicken soup has medicinal properties that help cure the common cold, flus, and inflammation. At my home, chicken soup is made about once or twice a month. Chicken soup always gives my immune system a noticeable boost. In addition to the positive effects on the immune system, a hearty home-made chicken soup is also full of tons of vitamins and protein! Yesteday I had some of Mom's home-made chicken soup; and afterwards I went to the gym and I did 25 sets of Curls (8-12 reps per set). Thanks to the chicken soup, I felt stronger, and and I had extra pep and what seemed like super-human strength. I did curls with the 70 pound barbell. I would have lifted 80 but there was somebody else using it, and I did not want to have to put the beat-down on him. Since I was chicken-soup-enhanced, I knew it would not be a fair fight. Chicken soup is like healthy, natural steroids. While something like Progresso soup or Campbell's probably has some diluted chicken essence; the best kind of chicken soup that you can eat is the home-made kind. With real chicken chunks and vegetables. When you have home-made chicken soup, you can taste and feel the power of natural proten and vitamins. It has a positive effect on me. The canned soups taste watery compared to home-made chicken soup! You put in fresh chicken and vegetables when making it at home. No preservativves or other bizarre chemicals. The home-made soup is easily ten times more potent than canned soup. Chicken soup will make a super-man or super-woman out of you! It will give you extra endurance power so that you last longer at anything that you do.

Stress Makes You Fat! Scientists published a study on mice which shows that weight gain depended upon the levels of two peptides in a physiological pathway, which controls the growth rate of fat and the size of fatty cells. According to Zofia Zukowska, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Physiology & Biophysics, one peptide is a neurotransmitter (neuropeptide Y, or NPY) and the other is the receptor (neuropeptide Y2 receptor, or Y2R) which activates in two types of cells in the fat tissue: endothelial cells lining blood vessels and fat cells themselves.

When mice used in the study were stressed, both peptides increased and the mice gained significantly more fat than the control mice that did not experience stress although they used the same amounts of high fat diet. Researchers found that when stressed, mice not only gained fat, but also exhibited metabolic disorders. “They had the glucose intolerance seen in diabetes, elevated blood pressure, inflammation in the blood vessels, and fat in their livers and muscles,” said Lydia Kuo, a medical student who earned her Ph.D. in physiology due to work on the study.

The more significant part of the study is that the researchers found some chemicals that can be used to remove fat or grow fat on particular parts of the body, such as removal of abdominal fat by injecting the chemicals to block Y2R. When the excessive fat, gone is also metabolic syndrome. The results of the study could lead to some obvious applications in cosmetics, if not immediately in medicine or health. Fat loss patches could be applied to specific areas of the body to help reduce fat. Human testing is expected to begin in two years.