Final Action PlanAuthor AffiliationStress is the body's method of reacting to a challenge. Depending on the stressful event, the way the body responds to stress is by activation of the sympathetic nervous system which results in the fight or flight response. In humans, stress typically describes a negative or positive condition that can impact a person's mental and physical well-being. Physiological or biological stress is an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition or stimulus. The term "stress" had not been used before the 1920s. It is a form of the Middle English destresse, derived through Old French from the Latin stringere, "to squeeze tightly". The word had long been used in physics to refer to the internal distribution of a force exerted on a material body, resulting in deformation. In the 1920s and 1930s, biological and psychological circles occasionally used the term to refer to mental strain or a harmful environmental agent that could cause disease. Walter Cannon used it in 1926 to refer to external factors disrupting what he called homeostasis. Stress is an explanation of lived experiences that is absent in both lay and expert life narratives before the 1930s. Physiological stress represents a broad range of physical responses that occur as a direct effect of a stressor causing a disturbance in the body's homeostasis. When the psychological or physical balance is immediately broken, the body responds by stimulating the nervous, endocrine and immune systems. The reaction of these systems causes a series of physical changes that have both short and long-term effects on the body. After taking Holms and Rahe's self-assessment, my results were 277, which means...... half of the paper.. ....erali. I probably will because my wife already paid for her gym membership. Since my wife will also be going to the gym, I am very confident that this can be a goal that will be achieved. By doing so I expect to be happier, feel better, look better and minimize my stress level to the point where it won't be as harmful as it is now. References Khansari, D.N., A.J. Murgo, et al. (1990). "Effects of stress on the immune system". Immunology Today 44:26 170-175Dantzer, R. and K. W. Kelley (1989). "Stress and immunity: an integrated view of the relationships between the brain and the immune system". Life Sciences. 44(26): 1995-2008.Jones MD, Daniel W (2012) 24:923-947. Racial and Ethnic Differences in PhD Advance CareHall, John E (2012). Planning: Identifying subgroup patterns and obstacles. Racial and ethnic differences in blood pressure.