...Eli's Response Exercise could possibly be one of the best things for you. Exercising reduces stress, reduces feeling of depression, and exercise helps the immune system in fighting of sicknesses. With all of these benefits and many more exercise is an overall beneficial thing to incorporate in your life. Exercise is important for everyone but especially during the teen years because exercise reduces stress, makes you a more confident person and detoxify's the body. No matter a persons age one should exercise daily for at least an hour of a vigorous workout. Exercise reduces stress causing you to be a happier person. Brennan states, in the article that, "exercise reduces the amount of stress hormones in the body (Brennan 10)." By exercising...
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...the human body responds to the stress response. Two causes of emotional disorders, stress and phobia will be discuss. It will also evaluate the theories and literature used to explaining the disorders. According to Eysenck (2008) Emotional disorders affect human behaviour in relation to the cells, muscles, blood, hormones and the nervous system. The biological and psychological approaches allow psychologists and other health professionals’ to accessed deeper understanding of the disorders and its impact on human behaviour. Stress which is one of the emotional disorders can be seen as a physical or psychological response to a threatening event. The causes of stress (the threatening event or the demands of a situation) for instance, exams or being redundant, are referred as stressor (Woods 1997). Selye (1956, cited in Woods 1997) suggested that the human body respond to stress in three different patterns known as “the general adaptation syndrome” which is identified in three stages, firstly is the alarm response; this involves the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system to prepare the body for ‘fight, flight or frolic’. The hypothalamus signals the pituitary gland to trigger the release of stress hormones like the adrenaline and noradrenaline to cause changes in the physiological activity such as, fighting inflammation and breathing difficulties. Secondly is the resistance, this is when the alarm response decreases but the stressor continues and the body continues...
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...Effects of Stress and How We Manage Emmanuel A. Rios Community College of Aurora Abstract The paper was written to explore stress and effective ways of managing stress since so many people suffer from its ill affects. A general guideline for an abstract has five sections or areas of focus: why the experiment was conducted; the problem being addressed; what methods were used to solve the problem; the major results obtained; and the overall conclusions from the experiment as a whole. The first two sections are very similar and can be grouped together, but do not have to be. If you decide to address them separately, make sure that you do not repeat anything. Often a section can be mentioned in only one sentence. Remember, brevity is the key to a successful abstract. Each section is addressed below to help clarify what needs to be included and what can be omitted. The most important thing to remember when writing the abstract is to be brief and state only what is pertinent. No extraneous information should be included. A successful abstract is compact, accurate and self-contained. It also must be clear enough so someone who is unfamiliar with your experiment could understand why you did what you did, and what the experiment indicated in the end. An additional note is that abstracts typically are written in the passive voice, but it is acceptable to use personal pronouns such as I or we. . http://writing2.richmond.edu/training/project/biology/abslit...
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... Stress Kills “The body releases hormones that increase the heart rate; cause rapid, shallow breathing; constrict blood vessels supplying digestive organs; and tighten muscles.” This quote comes from Deborah S. Hatrz-Seeley’s article “Chronic Stress Leads to the Six Leading Causes of Death” That’s right. That quote isn’t the effect of a heart attack or some other drastic health problem, those symptoms are just some of the things that come along with stress in the human body. The effects mentioned in Seeley’s article are after a person experiences something like a moderate car accident or being chased by something that could do harm (Chronic). In a situation like this, the body enters a so called “fight or flight” mode which helps the person get away from the situation safely, but once the danger has depleted the person goes in the “rest and digest” mode. Although this is a good and natural thing for the body to do, for most men today, they skip this mode and the stress from the moderate event becomes turns it into a more serious, chronic stress (Chronic). Also, in Seeley’s article and according to the American Psychological Association, “Chronic stress is linked to the six leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, accidents, cirrhosis of the liver and suicide. And more than 75 percent of all physician office visits are for stress-related ailments and complaints.” These examples are only a touch on how much stress effects peoples health...
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...Effects and Solutions of Stress Kennedie Montoya Grand Canyon University: PSY-102 November 16, 2014 Effects and Solutions of Stress American Psychological Association studies show that 75% of adults have stated that they experienced moderate to high levels of stress in the past thirty days (Esmond, 2009). Year after year, stress levels are getting higher and higher. Everyone is unique and all acquire stress form different aspects in their lives, but most do not know the repercussions that may come with stress. Many people accept that stress is a part of life that must be dealt with when it is not. Stress, often times, is overlooked because people have a vague idea of where in the brain it affects, how stress affects their body, and that treatment is available. Effects of Stress on the Brain The brain is a complex organ that is highly affected when a person suffers from stress. Stress, large or small, has many effects, such as shrinkage of the brain, killing of brain cells, and diminishing memory. There is a factor known as GATA1 in the brain that is activated by stress. When GATA1 is activated, it lowers the synaptic connections that occur in the brain (Frazier, N.D.). The fewer the connections, the lower the volume of the brain is. Fortunately, this is not permanent and can be cured. The chemicals that carry messages from one nerve cell to another become depleted, and the brain becomes sluggish and inefficient (Frazier, N.D.). Symptoms that could come from this would...
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...between stress and disease as they pertain to the body’s weakness and state the body is in, we must understand that the body is builds up a defense to keep out as much as it can of the bad diseases. The body uses its natural defenses to help keep out the bad infections. Stress can weaken the immune system which can bring on an increase of diseases such as arthritis, cancer, diabetes, and other serious diseases. Certain diseases attack the white blood cells which also make the immune system weak and hard for a person’s body to kick the disease or virus. Stress can cause not only emotional but physical damage as well. When a person’s body is under stress it can weaken the immune system and cause their body to become less capable to fighting off a disease. Organ Functions/Body Chemistry: Over time, stress can be seen as a weakening of the body. After a while the walls of our body start to break down and crumble, although there may be medication that will help slow down the process it never fully repairs the walls of the body. Stress can bring on a decrease in being able to fight of disease; increasing blood pressure, heart problems, anxiety, and the most common side effect are migraines. Certain diseases such as cancer, attack different parts of the body and its organ function. Most of the time it limits the ability of what the organ was supposed to be doing. This can cause stress on other organs and cause them to wear down and create other problems for the person’s body. Illnesses...
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...Stress When the body is in stress it creates glucocorticoids, which are made in the adrenal glands. These glucocorticoids are epinephrine and cortisol, which both accelerate immune cells to move from the bloodstream into the tissue if needed to fight against an infection, and when the infection is gone, they return the body to homeostasis. When a person is in stress, these glucocorticoids do the same thing as if they were fighting an infection; however, if the body is in constant stress, it will continue to "fight the infection" and will not return the body to homeostasis. This can cause glucocorticoid receptor resistance and can cause the body to develop an even higher risk of depression, upper respiratory infections, diabetes, autoimmune disease, slower healing, and even cardiovascular disease (1). The body's stress response kicks in when you feel there is a possible threat, which is necessary to ensure the best chance of survival. In the brain, the hypothalamus and the pituitary control the stress response. The adrenal glands also aid in controlling stress response by the kidneys. When the brain senses danger, it sends nerve signals down the spinal cord to the adrenal glands telling them to release adrenaline, which then increases the sugar in the blood, the heart rate, and the blood pressure. The hypothalamus sends signals to the pituitary gland telling it to release factors that travel quickly through the blood stream and stimulate the adrenal cortex to produce cortisol...
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...PHY11 Lesson 7 ELASTICITY ELASTICITY The ability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation. stress – characterizes the strength of forces causing the deformation. F stress A in 2 or pascal (Pa) strain – the resulting deformation. Hooke’s Law: stress elastic mod ulus strain 3 Types of Stress tensile or compressive stress – changes the length of a strained body. tensile stress bulk stress – changes the volume of a strained body. bulk stress shear stress – opposite forces act at different points in the body. shear stress Tensile and Compressive Stress Consider a body of initial length lo acted upon by a tensile or compressive force of F. F stress A l strain lo Young’s Modulus (Y) F stress A Y strain l l o Flo Y Al Example 1 Bulk Stress When uniform pressure p acts on a body, the volume of the body decreases. F pressure stress A V strain Vo F stress A B strain V V o Bulk Modulus (B) p B V V o B p V Vo Example 2 Shear Stress and Strain When equal and opposite forces act tangent to the opposite sides of a body, a shear strain is produced. F// stress A x strain h x h x tan h Shear Modulus (S) F// h S Ax F// S A tan Example 3 F// = 9.0 x 105...
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...Stress Management Why do people stress and what is stress you may ask? Why do people experience many feelings while they stress? Well I am here to let you know how stress is formed and the disadvantages of stress. I will inform you on how you can manage your stress and keep yourself healthy. Stress is the response of the body to the demands of daily living. Think about the demands you have on your everyday living. There are sources or causes which are called stressors that give demands that cause changes in the body. A stressor can be physical, mental, emotional, social, and even environmental. Stressor responses can be negative or positive. The positive stressor is Eustress, this is a healthy response. Eustress only means that you are not hurting yourself but being active and getting and adequate amount of sleep when you are trying to accomplish something. Distress is the negative response; it is harmful and produces negative results when you are trying to accomplish a goal. There are three stages of stress. The General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS), which is a series of changes that occur in the body when stress occurs. The first stage is the alarm stage of GAS in which the body gets ready for action. During this stage adrenaline starts to rush, in which the hormones that help your body get ready for emergency. Second is the resistance stage of GAS in which the body attempts to regain balance and return to normal. The final stage is the exhaustion stage, in which there is wear...
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...There are two different kinds of stress. They both affect the body and the mind differently. Acute stress occurs when the nervous system is activated to stimulate the adrenal glands which cause the heart rate to increase as well as the blood pressure and breathing rate. After this happens it takes the body approximately 20 to 60 minutes to return to its normal state. (Lyle H. Miller, 2013). This response is also known as the flight or fight response. Usually this happens when the body either decides to fight or flee the initial threat. Acute stress is caused by specific events that involve unpredictability, demands and pressure from the recent pass, novelty, and a threat to the ego. For example you may receive a phone call while at work saying that your child has a medical emergency. This may cause your blood pressure to raise which in return you experience acute stress. This type of on the spot stress however can be good for you because of the hormones released which cause you to deal with the situation. Since acute stress is short term it doesn’t have time to do any lengthy damage. Emotional stress is a form of acute stress which is caused by anger, irritability, anxiety or depression. While dealing with acute stress the body experiences muscular problems such as tension headaches, back pain, and tendon and ligaments problems. The body may also experience sweaty palms, heart palpitations, dizziness, and shortness of breath, chest pain, a rise in blood pressure, or cold hands...
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...Research that has suggested a link between stress and ill health. Looking at the link between stress and illness, there have been many studies done to show the direct effect stress has in relation to illness, the main three pathways looked at are the direct effect, stress interacting with pre-existing vulnerabilities and how stress leads to behavioural changes that are not beneficial to one’s health. However it is hard for researchers to establish a definite cause and effect relationship between stress and specific physical symptoms or illnesses. Not only do people's minds and bodies react differently to stress, but there also are other factors at work when someone falls ill. Most researchers have found the more a person suffers from stress the weaker his or hers immune system becomes. In trying to understand why stress can be bad for the body is to look at it from an evolutionary perspective, where in the past our ancestors were often confronted with life threatening situations and as a result the ‘fight or flight’ response evolved. Whilst being confronted by dangerous situations such as confrontation with a predator it was necessary to send blood to the muscles and be in a heightened state of arousal, however today it might not be relevant to most everyday stressors. So we can say most stressors do not pose a physical danger to us yet the way our nervous and endocrine systems have evolved we react to the stressors as if they did, whilst it might have been an adaptive response...
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...This essay will define stress and stressors. It will also explain the how stress can affect an individuals and outline and evaluate the at least two models of stress. It will explore how stress can be measured and outline and evaluate two models of stress and stressors. Stress is a pressure or force exerted on an object according to engineers and physicians (Gross r,Mcilveen r and Cooligan2000). Lazarus and folkman (1984) define stress as “a pattern of negative physiological states and psychological response occurring in a situation where people perceive threats to their well-being which they may be unable to meet” (Grossr,Mcilveen r and Cooligan 2000). There are different views of stress. Stress as a “stimulus” which means it is applied to the person or stressor and it is in the environment. This relates to the engineering model of stress identified by Cox (1978)(blackboard).secondly stress is seen as a “response”, the body identifies stress as a reaction made within the body(Blackboard).Selye 1956 defines stress as “the non-specific response of the body to any demands made upon it” this relates to the physiological model of stress(Blackboard). Finally stress is viewed as an interaction, in this view stress is seen as a transaction between environment and the individual and this relates to the “transactional model of stress” (Blackboard). The ability to cope with stress and the meaning people give to stressors will define the stress experienced (Blackboard).How people react...
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...Stress is something all people experience from time to time. Anything that poses a threat or challenge to ones’ well-being is stress. It can affect you mentally and physically. Stress can be beneficial or atrocious to ones’ health. Stress can emerge in many different forms from school, work, and divorce. Stress can also make a person feel frustrated, angry, sad, nervous, anxious and even hopeless at times. Stress is the way the body responds to a threat or challenge. This response is known as fight or flight response telling the body to either to fight or get away from immediate danger. Fight or flight response is based on the sympathetic nervous system responding. The body produces larger quantities of chemicals cortisol, adrenaline and other chemicals, which activates a higher heart rate, sweating, and alertness. Non-essential body functions such as the digestive system are stagnant. In addition, the body’s energy is concentrated on breathing, blood flow, alertness and muscle use. There are three kinds of stress acute, episodic, and chronic. Acute stress is the most common of the three. It comes from demands and pressures of the recent past and anticipated demands and pressures of the near future. Episodic stress comes when a person makes unreasonable or unrealistic demands. These demands get clustered together resulting in stress because of not being able to accomplish all of the goals. Chronic stress is brought about by long time exposure from unhappy marriage, poverty...
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...Top 9 reasons on how stress affects eating. We are all if not all the time, under some level of stress in dealing with our daily routines. Be it stress at the work place, college, school or even at home, it still pervades us. We will discuss the top ten reasons on how stress affects our eating over the next few days. Reason #1: The relation between food cravings and stress. - Stress can have a powerful effect on your appetite and food cravings. Stress affects how you absorb nutrients, the way your body chooses healthy foods and how you digest those foods. For a number of people, food becomes a mechanism for coping with stress. Reason #2: One can eat food at random hours due to stress. - The emotional eater: Emotional eaters choose food when they are feeling anxious due to which they have a tendency to overeat at every meal....
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...When was the last time you felt stressed? Everyone feels stressed almost everyday, whether you have a traumatic situation occurring, or you are just going to school, but do you actually know what stress is? Stress is the reaction your body has in a difficult situation and can result in different types of stress. In these situations, your body can react to stress in many different positive and negative ways. The first two types of stress are called acute and episodic acute stress. Acute stress is the most common type of stress and is caused by everyday demands and pressures. It can also be fun and exhilarating at times such as when you’re on a roller coaster or watching a suspenseful movie. However, when stress becomes more and more common...
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