Welcome to this lens! This lense has enjoyed some success because people are looking for substantive yet easy to follow information about how to fight stress. I hope you enjoy this lens as an informative and stress-free resource. If so, please rank my page and add it to your favorites. Thank you! Stress: (strEHs’) n. 1. An epidemic of plague-like proportions striking all races, genders and ages. 2. ... http://www.squidoo.com/fightstress Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:35:39 -0600 FeedCreator 1.7.2 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:11:10 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/fightstress Welcome to this lens! This lense has enjoyed some success because people are looking for substantive yet easy to follow information about how to fight stress. I hope you enjoy this lens as an informative and stress-free resource. If so, please rank my page and add it to your favorites. Thank you! Stress: (strEHs’) n. 1. An epidemic of plague-like proportions striking all races, genders and ages. 2. A chameleon health condition, also known as adrenal fatigue syndrome, that can result in obesity, insomnia, heart disease, depression, headache, ulcer, chronic fatigue and a myriad of other illnesses. verb trans. 1. To be anxious, nervous, worried, tired or strained for prolonged periods of time without relief. 2. To experience severe mental, emotional and/or physical discomfort. The difficulty of preventing stress lies in the fact that stress truly is a “chameleon” health problem. Thousands of factors can cause stress, and stress can appear in your body in almost as many ways. With every individual, stress is brought on by a unique factor. For some, it’s the partying college kids next door, or worrying about finances, while for others, stress may be caused by the loss of a loved one, and for others still, too much of a good thing – like exercise. Stress can be mental, creating frustration, inability to focus, reduced concentration and energy, and weak memory skills. Stress can be emotional, overcoming you with anger, resentment, worry, anxiety or panic. And stress can be physical, whether from improperly nourished muscles and organs or real physical injury. Often, stress is a combination of two or more of these types. What’s more, stress can have a compounding effect: a mentally stressful situation can develop into physical health troubles, and these health troubles can in turn create more mental stress in your life. What does this mean? Stress is potentially the most pervasive, damaging condition we face. Nearly every major cause of death, including heart disease, stroke, obesity, diabetes and arthritis, is linked to some type of stress. Read on to learn how detrimental stress is to a healthy lifestyle. Then learn a number of ways to naturally eliminate stress, and learn how to reduce stress through supplementation. Along the way find a number of fun ways to reduce stress - tension eliminating games and a joke a day. Also, be introduced to our propriety stress-relief formula that may be just what you are looking for to help cope with stress in your hectic life. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:11:10 -0600