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Teenagers and Stress
Recent studies show that almost every teenager in the USA has felt some sort of stress and that many are seriously stressed out. In fact, it is believed that up to 33% of teenagers feel stress on a daily basis while 67% feel stressed out at least once a week. Not surprisingly, 78% of the teenagers interviewed said that school was the main source of their stress. So why is stress so widespread and what can be done to prevent it or lessen its effects?
Stress is a feeling of being under emotional pressure and is the body’s way of attempting to deal with a tough situation. It can be caused by anything from a real physical threat such as bullying to a simple fear of making a presentation in front of the class and can affect how you think, feel, behave and how your body functions. When the body feels stressed it produces hormones to make you more alert and capable of handling the situation. These hormones speed up the metabolism by increasing breathing and heart rate and raising blood pressure.
A reasonable amount of stress is good for the body. It keeps you on your toes and improves your performance. However, frequent stress causes the nervous system to remain on alert and to produce excessive amounts of stress hormones. This can have an adverse effect on your performance, leave you feeling tired and weakened and eventually cause health problems such as acne, high blood pressure, depression or other diseases. Obviously, managing stress should be on everyone’s mind.
One of the best ways to minimise stress is by doing moderate exercise. Just ten minutes of moderate exercise is enough to improve your mood, but by doing 30 minutes of exercise a day you’re likely to gain all the benefits of keeping fit and feeling good, while improving your chances of coping with stress. So, take time to relax, but instead of slouching on the couch why don’t you get out there and make yourself feel good? You’re worth it!

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  • Doing 30 minutes of exercise a day is much better for health than doing 10 minutes of exercise.
  • When you are stressed, the produced hormones increase your breathing, heart beat and raise blood pressure.
  • Stress is never good for the body.
  • Bullying is one of the greatest school problems for teenagers nowadays.
  • Stress can be caused even by a simple fear of making a presentation in front of the class.
  • There’s no need for people to manage stress.
  • Recent study shows that all teenagers in the USA are seriously stressed out.