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Hi I am interested in finding a gift to relieve my mother n laws stress from Ms any help would be great thank you

Shena36 wrote:Hi I am interested in finding a gift to relieve my mother n laws stress from Ms any help would be great thank you

How about a gift certificate for a couple of massage sessions?

could consider a gift basket with easy at-home/stress-reducing/good-for-you things - magnesium is emphasized below, because stress increases mag excretion, and lower mag in turn increases stress, which results in more magnesium excretion, in an unfortunate downward spiral.

so. i just today noticed free samples available from this web site http://naturalvitality.com/natural-calm/ (don't know if there are limitations re where they will ship however).

also, epsom salts (or similar) baths can help deliver stress-relieving essential nutrients known to be lower in ms patients:
http://www.livestrong.com/article/41626 ... -chloride/

if she likes homemade treats, you can identify any foods she likes which contain ingredients from this list, maybe a snack or light meal recipe prepared for her could be appreciated. one thing which i personally am going to try out in the near future will be magnesium dense energy balls (they'll be great for other essential nutrients as well, of course). reviewing the magnesium foods list, such a snack could include oats, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, chopped cashews, sunflower seeds, chopped almonds, maybe some dried papaya (i'll use gojis and cranberries in part for personal preference - also gojis are not listed on the whfoods website but are reportedly much higher in magnesium, closer to 150mg/100g), flaxseeds, and not because it's from this list but just because i know it's good for magnesium, some dark chocolate (146mg mag per 100g - it's the sugar that's the dealbreaker there though) and beyond that just because i am also interested in selenium, i'll add chopped brazil nuts to the mix.
i will be considering things like honey, maple syrup and or peanut butter to hold these together once i have all the ingredients on hand, maybe roll individual ones in coconut. being me, i will likely work out how much food mag goes into the total recipe, then based on how many balls it makes, i will know how many mgs of magnesium have been delivered in each. and then i would use them sparingly, knowing that they'd be on the high calorie end of the healthy mag foods scale (note all sources considered 'excellent' on this healthy foods site, are dark leafy green veggies)
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tnam ... #foodchart

if she wold appreciate a meal made so she can just heat something up, maybe a nice recipe high in stress reducing minerals. i have not tried this recipe, but i do consider spinach feta pie a superior dish for delivering stress-relieving nutrition.
http://www.skinnytaste.com/easy-crust-l ... -feta-pie/

if she is a soup fan, here's another option: http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/cont ... -bean-soup

I never thought of that stuff thank you so much I'm going to look into it!

She is on a glutten free diet will those homemade goodies be something she could have?

fyi gluten free diet by its nature increases nutrient uptake. zinc in particular. similarly, a system topped up with adequate zinc is better equipped to manage dietary gluten inputs.

in fact, zinc's relevance extends further upstream, into the field where wheat is grown. wheat grown with insufficient zinc nutrition is more likely to have a high ratio of gliadin to glutenin (wheat proteins). this means wheat grown in zinc deficient conditions is more likely to contain a particular gluten balance (high gliadin) which can trigger a bad reaction when consumed by humans. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 1007000720

if you look at whfoods' list of healthy zinc foods, you'll see a few repeats from the mag list, eg sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, cashews, and oats. peanuts are also
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tnam ... #foodchart

foods which contain gluten include:
https://celiac.org/live-gluten-free/glu ... of-gluten/

you can cross check if you're concerned but i've yet to see an obvious gluten dense food on the whfoods web site.

imho phytates (from legumes and dark leafy greens) are the main antinutrient of concern on all whfoods' lists. there are ways to manage impacts from both gluten and phytates. you just have to know what you're doing.

on the gluten front, i personally mitigate impacts by choosing ($$$) breads made from sprouted flour, sourdough, that kind of thing. and i don't consume bread often. i have pasta extremely rarely and if i do, it's generally brown rice pasta. yesterday i finished the last slice in a loaf of sourdough rye bread, which for the first time in probably a decade, i actually made my way through without having to put it in the freezer. 10 yrs ago i had many nutrient deficiencies and i reacted badly to bread. now, i've spent a decade teaching myself how to eat properly and can enjoy (mostly) carefully chosen breads infrequently enough that my system can deal, no problem. i had got to the point where i was comfortable with a regular nasty take out pizza once per month with no consequences. most recently i've decided to drop it back to one every other month because i'm not getting that much exercise right now! don't deserve it atm ;)