Obesity: With 33% of the adult population of Americans being obese there is a great deal of interest in understanding and combating this public health concern. Obesity is a risk factor for several negative health consequences. Some, but not all of the these risks are, cardiovascular disease, sleep apnea, colon cancer, breast cancer, infertility, and arthritis. Both genes and environment are responsible for obesity and we were born with the instinct to eat. For millions of years, humans did not know where their next meal would come from so we ate when we had food. It is projected that by 2025 90% of the population will be overweight or obese. This rising trend is very alarming among children since 80% of overweight kids will be obese as adults. The obesity rate in children has tripled from the 1980s to 2012. Since more than 20% of children 12-19 years old are overweight this is of great concern with just the cost …show more content…
One way to view stress is to view it as a process where a person perceives and responds to an event he sees as overwhelming or threatening to his well being. We have two kinds of appraisals for stress, primary and secondary. Primary appraisal is a judgment on the level of potential harm or threat to well being a stressor might entail. Secondary appraisal is the judgment of the options available to cope with a stressor as well as perceptions of how effective such options will be. Too much stress leads to too much cortisol, which will kill you, but stress is the salt of life that also makes life worth living. This is the paradox of stress. All disease processes are made worse by stress. Hans Selye tied stress to a few specific diseases like typhoid, tuberculosis and ulcers. Stress by itself is neither good nor bad it is just an increased demand on an organism. When we start to see our daily hassles as stressful those are the stressors that will kill