Stress is difficult to measure, but it certainly is another cardiovascular risk factor and therefore has implications for health. Sometimes, work stress is associated with a higher cholesterol levels and increased overweight.
Stress, in different degrees, is part of our daily lives and we all experience in a positive or negative. Only when the normal response to stress is intense or prolonged can damage health.
Thus, stress is not a disease itself, but can trigger severe reactions in the body. In recent years it seems that our lives go faster, and demands are also greater than before despite the fact that the media have been mechanized in many cases, and that the electronic age should be a relief.
However, everybody complains about being overworked and lack of time. Women especially have more difficulty in reconciling professional work with household chores, devotion to family, social commitments etc..
2. Do you have to do with life stress today?
The above changes have forced us to incorporate the word stress in our lives. And the resulting stress reactions that our body has against unexpected events, which are embodied in the consumerism, excessive aggressiveness and excessive competition.
Perhaps each of us has a different definition of stress, but all suffer the same response. That is, suffer a series of physiological and biochemical reactions in the body that occur as a result of a stimulus or external threat.
Thus, we feel palpitations, increased blood pressure, pale skin, sweating in the hands or dilated. Other stress-related symptoms include irritability, impaired concentration, headaches, mood or insomnio.
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