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Stress: A User's Guide

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By Any Other Name
Call it what you will, stress has been around as long as we have.

Childhood Obesity
Could stress be at the root of the epidemic?

19 Ways to Beat Stress*
[*Public-health-sanctioned]
The experts at Michigan offer tips to boost your resilience.

The Aftermath
In the wake of a workplace assault, a nurse struggles to recover the life she knew.

Stress: A User’s Guide

Coping strategies help, but only so much. Stress takes its toll. Chronic or temporary, traumatic or everyday, it can affect our hearts and lungs, immune and neurological systems, blood vessels and brains. Scientists are only beginning to grasp the extent to which it contributes to diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, influenza, and depression. Their research confirms what most of us instinctively know: stress is an iceberg whose full burden lies hidden from view. On a daily basis, most of us muddle through. But some don’t, and that’s where the work of public health can make a difference.