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Stress
Health Effects
Unhealthy vs. Health ways to cope
Managing stress
Misc.
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What is stress?
An organism's total response to environmental demands or pressures
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What chronic health condition is not actually caused by stress but triggered by it?
Asthma
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What are examples of unhealthy ways to cope?
Smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, and withdrawing yourself from friends and family
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What is the first step in managing your stress?
Identifying the stressors in your life
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What are examples of common stressors?
Job, School, Relationships, Finances, Family
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True or False: Stress only affects a person emotionally not physically
False, unmanaged stress can most certainly lead to health problems and risks.
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Sudden emotional stress can cause what chronic health problem?
Heart disease or heart attack
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What are examples of healthy ways to cope with stress?
eating healthy, breathing exercises, and adequate amount of sleep
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What are ways to manage stress?
Adopt a healthy lifestyle, adapt to the stressor, look at the big picture, make times for the things you enjoy
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What is the most effective way to breathe to reduce stress?
Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth
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Stress affects the overall ____ and ____ impacts the overall health and well being
What is mind and body?
300
Stress causes higher levels of cortisol which leads to what chronic health condition?
Obesity
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What are the three yoga poses you learned today that can help relieve stress?
Tree pose, child's pose, butterfly pose, half lotus
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What are steps to adopting a healthy lifestyle?
exercising, eating healthy, reducing caffeine,getting an adequate amount of sleep and avoiding alcohol, drugs, and tobacco
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Who is in control of your life?
YOU!!!