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STRESS AND HEALTH This research provides an over

This research provides an overview of the relationship between stress and health. Additionally, stress management through proper nutrition and exercise is also reviewed.

Stress has long been recognized as a major contributor to the onset of significant physical and mental health problems in individuals (Kaplan and Sadock, 1990). Over the past decade, stress has also been implicated as an adverse factor in abilities of individuals to function effectively in organizational environments.

Stress research is traced to the formulation of the general adaptation syndrome in the 1930s by H. Selye (Kaplan and Sadock, 1990). As a medical student, Selye observed that most sick people appeared to have common characteristics, but that the sickness syndrome per se was not being studied. He based his theory on the concept of homeostasis, defined as the body's ability to maintain stability or constancy within its living organism. Selye extended the concept of homeostasis to damage resulting from the interaction of a force, or stressor, and the resistance, or adaptation, to that force.

Selye eventually came to consider the possibility that a variety of damaging influences, or stressors, could produce the same reactions, or stress outcomes, within an organism. He theorized that, if it could be shown that the organism had a general nonspecific reactionpattern with which it could meet damage caused by a variety of diseaseproducers, this response

on the part of the organism would lend itself to a strictly objective, scientific analysis (Kaplan and Sadock, 1990).

Another significant contribution to stress research concerned the impact of stress on organisms. Selye was the first to publicly hold that, while excessive stress may be damaging to an organism, (1) an absence of all stress was not desirable, and (2) moderate stress may have beneficial effects (Kaplan and Sadock, 1990). Viewed in this broader perspectiv...

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