Employees can reduce their overall stress by:

· Regularly exercising, as this releases ‘happy hormones’. · Eating a healthy diet, as stress depletes vital nutrients. · Getting adequate rest. · Using tea and lunch breaks to read, listen to a relaxation CD or have a five-minute power-nap. · If appropriate, playing relaxing music at work and burning aromatherapy oils. · Being more organized. Get up earlier to have more time. · Delegating responsibility where possible. Say no! · Taking time out to laugh by telling someone a joke. Start a laughter group: by standing in a circle and all forcing a big laugh, it will soon become real! · Avoiding caffeine and sugar. Although this may provide an instant lift it later depletes body of energy and nutrients. · Taking time to do things that bring enjoyment and pleasure. · Making work environment pleasurable. Have relaxing sounds in form of music or a water fountain. Have enjoyable smells by burning candles or aromatherapy oils. Hang beautiful pictures or posters on walls; have photos or flowers on desk. · Taking care of their overall health and wellbeing by practising good self-care.

Sometimes trying to implement change (even for better) can itself cause stress and prevent a person remaining motivated. In this case it’s important to get support for your stress from a counsellor, doctor, naturopath, friend, peer or life coach who specializes in stress issues.

The benefits of a systematic and joint approach to reducing work stress are:

· Increased productivity · Decrease in absenteeism · Improved morale · Decrease in workers’ compensation claims · Reduction in workplace accidents

The most important benefit in reducing workplace stress is that it will promote a pleasant work environment for all.

One place that is NOT a good source are vitamin C pills, which body just cannot absorb properly. This is a water soluble vitamin best taken in its natural juice or in a liquid supplement.

OPTIMUM USAGE: Fortunately, if you consume too much of a water soluble vitamin, your body will get rid of excess. It also means that your body does not store it for long periods of time. You can't "stock up" on it, and you can reach a saturation point quickly; you need vitamin C several times a day.

Being a water-soluble vitamin, you lose it when you boil foods. For instance, if you boil your broccoli, you will lose vitamin C. However, if you boil your broccoli in a soup, you will get broccoli's vitamin C in broth.

Do not soak or store fruits or vegetables in water, for you can lose vitamin C that way. In short, fresher cut fruit or vegetable, and less cooked, more vitamin C you will get. Like all vitamins and minerals, Vitamin C is most effective when combined with other nutrients. For example, one of big benefits of vitamin C is that it helps body digest and absorb iron, an essential mineral for good health.

It has also been found that vitamin C and E work together to help stave off Alzheimer's disease.

This is one of reasons it is so important to take vitamin supplements that contain as many different nutrients as possible, so body can absorb them together and enjoy maximum benefits from each one.

DOSAGE: Most experts agree that US RDA is only a fraction of what it should be, and that daily vitamin C levels up to 1,000 or even 2,000 milligrams per day are safe and healthy.

Essential Nectar contains 250% of US RDA, mixing it with 233 other natural, plant-based nutrients...making it a good vitamin C supplement for your diet.