As children grow parents tend not to take them for physicals every year or two unless they require sports physicals for school activities. This may be a mistake since, although teens often appear healthy, this is a time in their lives when their bodies are able to withstand consistent assaults from chemicals, environmental stimuli, over eating and under exercise. Receiving
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Coping with life’s challenges helps all of us to reduce our stress and therefore reduce the risk of developing physical and emotional problems related to stress. Feelings of stress are caused by the body’s instinct to defend itself. In other words, hormones such as adrenaline and norepinephrine, are secreted into the bloodstream when the body recognizes that you may be
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Freshman year at college produces an abnormal amount of stress on an 18-year-old who is generally away from home for the very first time. And, since many of us eat when under stress, it is no wonder that many freshman gain between 7 and 15 pounds the first year they are at college. One of the ways in which
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