Question

According to the American Institute of Stress, it is estimated that 75 to 90 percent of visits made to primary care doctors in the United States are related to a stress-related illness. You can prevent visits like these by learning to manage and cope with stress. One way is to take good care of your body. In this task, you will do some research about stress and exercise and answer some questions. Each answer should be two to three paragraphs long, with about 50 to 100 words per paragraph.
Before you move on to the task, look at these resources:
(websites)
Teens Health
US Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The American Institute of Stress
National Institute of Mental Health
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Mental Health America
Part A Describe what stress is and how it affects your body. Address physiological fight-or-flight responses and how those responses relate to your cardiorespiratory and muscular systems.

Answer 1

Stress is a mental impact that you put on your body by being to preoccupied or worried about things occurring or coming up in your life. For example there is a lot of stress in high school students because of things like peer pressure and needing to fit in as well as having to always do well in school. Stress can be a dangerous thing as it can lead to something called the fight or flight response which under pressure and stress can cause the body to do strange/ abnormal things which can lead to harming the persons body