Today, We learned Cause and Effect continued last week. We learned the text in this topic that was The Effect of Stress. Teacher Usa read the text with explained it for us. Then, she asked us to find discourse markers in the text and answered the exercise.
How Does Stress Affect Health?
The human body is designed to experience stress and react to it. Stress can be positive, keeping us alert and ready to avoid danger. Stress becomes negative when a person faces continuous challenges without relief or relaxation between challenges. As a result, the person becomes overworked and stress-related tension builds.
Stress that continues without relief can lead to a condition called distress -- a negative stress reaction. Distress can lead to physical symptoms including headaches, upset stomach, elevated blood pressure, chest pain, and problems sleeping. Research suggests that stress also can bring on or worsen certain symptoms or diseases.
Stress also becomes harmful when people use alcohol, tobacco, or drugs to try to relieve their stress. Unfortunately, instead of relieving the stress and returning the body to a relaxed state, these substances tend to keep the body in a stressed state and cause more problems. Consider the following:
- Forty-three percent of all adults suffer adverse health effects from stress.
- Seventy-five percent to 90% of all doctor's office visits are for stress-related ailments and complaints.
- Stress can play a part in problems such as headaches, high blood pressure, heart problems, diabetes, skin conditions, asthma, arthritis, depression, and anxiety.
- The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) declared stress a hazard of the workplace. Stress costs American industry more than $300 billion annually.
- The lifetime prevalence of an emotional disorder is more than 50%, often due to chronic, untreated stress reactions.
Health problems in modern life
• Physical problems
• The heart by causing an increase in pulse rate high blood pressure
• The respiratory system by causing asthma, breathing problem and a loss of carbon dioxide
• Stomach aches and problems digesting food
• Emotional problems
• Panic attacks and overreact to little problems
• Mood changes such as making people angry, moody, or nervous
• Mental health problems
• Long term stress can create a variety of serious mental illnesses
• Alcoholism and addictions often develop as a result of overuse of alcohol or drug
• Anorexia
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