Scientific American Topic – Stress RSS Feed

When I was choosing my RSS Feeds, I came across one that immediately screamed my name. Stress! I found an RSS Feed in Scientific American that had stress as the main topic. What made finding something to read on stress even better was that I was extremely stressed at the time. As I started to dig deeper into the readings on stress, I started to become less stressed. I thought that was pretty ironic.

As I picked through the headings, I read the ones that really popped out at me and caught my attention. I read the ones like Window View Beats TV for Stress and Work It Out: More Activity = Slower Aging. The one that I think related most to me was Work It Out: More Activity = Slower Aging. It talked about the importance of exercise in a person’s life, and it said that if a person exercised at least five times a week they would live longer and have lower stress levels as opposed to a person who hardly ever exercised. Since I had just read that one after I had come in from a extremely hot four mile run, I was really thinking hard. I thought about the days when I was overly stressed at school because of all the homework I had to do when I got home and the thirty minutes it would take me to get home from school after staying after school for cross country practice for about an hour and a half. I would go to cross country practice so stressed, but I would come out relieved and very refreshed. Running always gives me a chance to clear my head and sort things out before I pretty much explode. I would have never gotten through days like that if I did not have to run after school.

I discovered that this feed really made me think about exercising, stress, and the people around me. I actually really realized the reason I love running so much. I love to run because I am stress-free when I run. However, I thought that the author could have added a little more information on how stress can affect kids in school from the pressures from themselves or their parents to do well. On the other hand, I did enjoy how the author was so factual in how all of the information was presented. The writing was enjoyable to me due to the fact that it was personal and factual and very persuasive at the same time.

 

 

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