1. Did You Know? Prolonged stress actually causes your physical DNA strands to shorten and decay. Also, laughing increases your lifespan. So does owning a pet. So does being religious (doesn’t matter what religion).

2. Stress and Health Leading causes of death in the US in 1900 and 1991
Percentage
U.S.deaths 30 20 10
Tuber-
culosis
Pneu-
monia
Diarrhea/
enteritis
Heart
disease
1900
Cancer
Strokes
Chronic
lung disease
1991
Unlike many leading
killers a century ago,
today’s major
killers are more
lifestyle-related

3. Life Ain’t About How Hard You Can Hit

4. What is Stress? General Adaptation Syndrome
resistance
Phase 1
Alarm
reaction
(mobilize
resources)
Phase 2
Resistance
(cope with
stressor)
Phase 3
Exhaustion
(reserves
depleted)
The body’s resistance to stress can only
Last so long before exhaustion sets in
Stressor
occurs
General Adaptation Syndrome
Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress as composed of three stages

5. How Bad Do You Want It?

6. Stress and Personality
Type A
Friedman and Rosenman’s term for people who are competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, anger- prone
Type B
Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing, relaxed people

7. You Want Something – Go Get It

8. Promoting Health Aerobic Exercise
Depression
score 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3
Before treatment
evaluation
After treatment
No-treatment
group
Aerobic
exercise
Relaxation
treatment
Aerobic Exercise
sustained exercise that increases heart and lung fitness
may also alleviate depression and anxiety

9. The Inches Are All Around Us
(mute at 2:46)

10. Weight Discrimination
Willingness
to hire scale
(from1:
definitely
not hire to
7: definitely
hire) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Women
Men
Normal
Overweight
When women applicants were made to look overweight, subjects were less willing to hire

11. Everybody Was Against You

12. Level of social support
Life events
Tendency toward
Health
Illness
Personal appraisal
Challenge
Threat
Personality type
Easy going
Nondepressed
Optimistic
Hostile
Depressed
Pessimistic
Personality habits
Nonsmoking
Regular exercise
Good nutrition
Smoking
Sedentary
Poor nutrition
Level of social support
Close, enduring
Lacking

13. Coachable

14. Weight Control Most lost weight is regained Weight change in pounds
-20
-15
-10 -5 5 10 1 2 3 4
Weight
change
in pounds
Post
treatment
Years of follow-up
Starting
point
Normal trend for untreated obese
people: Gradually rising weight
After participation in behavioral
Program: Much of initial weight
Loss regained
Most lost weight is regained