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"Provides basic consumer health information about the physical and mental health effects of stress and trauma, related therapies and stress management techniques, and coping tips for adults and children. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--
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"Provides basic consumer health information about types of stress and the stress response, the physical and mental health effects of stress, along with facts about treatment for stress-related disorders, and stress management techniques for adults and children. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--
86) Worried sick
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This program shows the body's physiological reaction to stress. Host Alan Alda meets researchers who are exploring the ill effects of stress on health and aging, and how relaxation can help lessen the damage.
88) I like me
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Tensions develop between the egocentric free-spirited Maggie, and her serious business-minded sister, Hannah, after Maggie's unexpected success as a self-empowerment guru tests the fragile bond with her sister as Hannah's life stalls.
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In The Age of Stress, Mark Jackson explores the history of scientific studies of stress in the modern world. In particular, he reveals how the science that legitimates and fuels current anxieties about stress has been shaped by a wide range of socio-political and cultural, as well as biological, factors: stress, he argues, is both a condition and a metaphor. This approach is not designed or intended to deny the reality of stress in people's lives,...
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In Extreme, Emma Barrett and Paul Martin explore the challenges that people in extreme environments face, including pain, physical hardship, loneliness, disagreements, and the approaches taken to overcome them. Using many fascinating examples and personal accounts, they take a close look at the psychological impact on those who face these challenges, the traits that enable some people to succeed, and what we can take away from their experiences.
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El aclamado autor de Los hombres son de Marte, las mujeres de Venus, vuelve a sorprendernos con otra obra revolucionaria que desvela las causas bioquimicas de la distancia entre los sexos: las hormonas. Para combatir el estres, afirma el autor, las mujeres liberan una hormona llamada oxitocina, mientras que los hombres producen testosterona. Si la oxitocina se genera en situaciones seguras y cooperativas, la testosterona, en cambio, aparece en momentos...
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"Taking charge of your health begins with an understanding of how stress and other lifestyle factors influence your health. Balancing Act presents insightful lessons from stress and life that give you the tools to access optimal health and energy. In stress, an ever-present mind-body connection is revealed where mind influences body and body influences mind. In addition, you are always on a continuum between stress on one end and calm on the other....
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Sociologists, neuroscientists, psychologists and survivors have found that the way that people behave in a crisis is very predictable. By combining the stories of survivors with research into how the brain works under extreme duress, it brings light into civilization's darkest moments.
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Distorted body image is a growing concern amongst women in educated, often affluent communities, fuelled by a public obsession with the perfect body and a skewed definition of what it means to look fit, healthy and/or beautiful. Sometimes that distortion result in obviously unhealthy behaviour, but, disturbingly, it can also manifest as an over-zealous focus on health and fitness. Fit not Healthy is the story of how one woman's determination to be...
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