The Pros And Cons Of Stress

Stress is a visitor too all of humanities life-span and if not to all, then to most of us. According to Mayo clinic’s website, “Stress symptoms can affect your body, your thoughts and feelings, and your behavior. Being able to recognize common stress symptoms can give you a jump on managing them. Stress that 's left unchecked can contribute to many health problems, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity and diabetes”. ("How stress affects your body and behavior", 2017).

Health Psychology can be a leading expert into investigating the why we stress, what makes us stress, what happens or could happen from stress and how to relieve stress of a behaviour we may have developed from it. Health professionals in Psychology base their interventions on a number of models that try to explain peoples health-related behaviour.

According to the Journal of Psychosomatic Research Volume 41 & Volume 48, Issue 2. Two studies have approached the matter relating health concerns to stress. One reporting that from a longitudinal study on 90 staff members in a large department that the” results indicate that the associations between restraint and stress-induced eating that have been observed in the laboratory extend to the real-life setting. They raise the possibility that restrained eaters are particularly vulnerable to adverse effects of stress on health, through influences on food intake” ("How stress affects your body and behavior", 2017). The Other study using