Stress affects our food choices, metabolism, nutritional status, and overall health in many ways. For this discussion forum, we will be talking about how we cope with stress and how to optimize our coping strategies to benefit our health.

Address the following questions in your post:

List and describe five ways that stress affects your health? Use your text and other relevant references to respond to this question.

What are three healthy ways that you cope with stress? Make this personal, as opposed to listing general strategies that anyone could do.

What are three unhealthy ways you cope with stress? Again, make this a personal application.

Share three or more changes you can make to manage your stress more effectively and to improve your health? Again, make this a personal application.

Make sure that you copy and paste the questions above into the body of your post. Respond to all questions thoroughly. Properly cite all of your sources in APA style.