22 Nov Differentiate between caloric and nutritional needs

Reflecting on the Week 6 learning resources, what did you find most interesting or meaningful?

Resourse 2 BELOW ONE A LINK FOR Coping, Kelly McGonigal – How to Make Stress Your Friend AND Stress in Adulthood MATERIAL

TOPIC FOR WEEK 6

The week’s readings (Managing Health, Stress Scale, Stress in Adulthood, Coping, Kelly McGonigal – How to Make Stress Your Friend) and discussion will facilitate our learning this week.

Next, go to Learning Resources to access the course resources for this week.

Weekly Learning Objectives:

· Differentiate between caloric and nutritional needs.

· Explain the link between malnutrition and disease and disorders.

· Identify the benefits of physical exercise to body and mental function.

· Explain why a life course perspective is vital in the study of stress.

· Discuss the challenges that impact the study of coping skills.

1- https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend?language=en

2- Stress In Adulthood

The term stress is widely used in everyday life, and even scholars have defined and used the term in different ways. However, researchers who study stress have arrived at a general consensus in the definition of the concept. Stressor refers to life circumstances that disturb or threaten to disturb the patterns of everyday life. Stressors initiate a process of adaptation to the demands of life. The degree of adaptation required depends on characteristics of the Stressor, such as its intensity or duration. Adaptations that evoke changes in psychological and physical functioning are referred to as stress responses. The stress process refers to people’s ongoing adaptation (changes in physical, social, and psychological functioning) to the demands of life. In other words, the stress process is an ongoing system of adaptation to the ups and downs of everyday life; Stressors are antecedents of the stress process; and stress responses are the outcomes of adaptation.