Stress and Health in Adulthood

As we go though childhood and adolescents we are learning how to cope with all sorts of situations.  In turn we are learning how to cope with stress.  Our ability to learn these coping mechanisms will help us when we become adults.  Stress can be motivating for some adults, however too much stress can be detrimental to our health.  We develop our own stress management system.  There are many ways that we, as adults choose to deal with the stress of our every day lives.  Some may use exercise as a means to deal with it while other may eat their stresses away.  Exercise is an excellent way to deal with stress because not only are you able to relieve the psychological issues but you are helping your body stay resilient against disease and boost our immune system.  As many of us know eating is not the best way to cope with stress.  We tend to use foods that are filling but are not nutritious.  America has become a society with more obese people.  Diabetes has become increasingly common throughout our society.  An increase in fat has increased the number of colon cancer, heart attack, and even breast cancer. 
The older we get the more changes our body goes through.  Now instead of holding the paper or book close to our face we are holding it at arms length.  Our hearing becomes increasingly worse.  That may be from the loud music that we enjoyed in our adolescents and even early adulthood.  The older we get the more things we start to see that are going wrong with our bodies.  Our bones are not as solid as they used to be and many adults, especially women, have to take calcium supplements to make up for it.  For women things start sagging and do not hold up as well as they did when we were in our 20's and 30's.  Reproduction is no longer possible with the help of menopause.  This hormonal change is difficult for most women who can suffer hot and cold flashes as well as several weeks of bleeding at a time and at irregular patterns.   Men tend to have erectile dysfunction.  If you ask me we (women) got the raw end of the deal.