40:29 Whichof the following would you enhance to improve your health: 1. The kind of foodyou eat 2. The amount of exercise 3. The amount of stress. Itis universally acknowledged that health is a comprehensive result of a clusterof factors including diet habit, exercise, body strengths, the stress of workor family and so on, which requires integrated and consistent effort toimprove. But if there is only one factor to choose, I would definitely chooseto enhance the amount of stress I face to improve my health. Firstof all, without the relieve of stress neither better food nor more exercisewill serve well as expected. Undoubtedly, healthier diet and more exercise willsurely enhance your body strength and therefore improve your health, but theyboth function mainly physically while their positive psychological effectsmight be spoiled by the intense stress at hand. Have you ever experienced momentslike these: under the stress of a dead line, going exercise is nothing but atrivial activity that would be skipped; or when you are in a bad time with yourgirlfriend, experiencing great stress, no matter how appealing a dish likes,you simply can’t get rid of the deadline in your mind and concentrate on thehealthy food. As long as the amount of stress is still a problem, all the othermethods by which we try to improve our health will be impeded and ineffective.After all, stress will put us in a nervous state which deprives the opportunityto relax and remain a peaceful mood which is vital to a fancy dinner or ahiking. Moreover,by reducing stress we enjoy a healthier atmosphere in which we take our timeand can be more concentrated, which, in turn, significantly reduce thepotential blunder or mistakes easily made under great stress, forming avirtuous cycle. According to a survey recently done by CHSM, 82 percent of theoffice workers claims that they are more likely to blunder under stress. Theless stress we bear, the more creativity and efficiency we engage, namely,better results we will do, rendering the stress further going down. After all,a decrease in stress will no doubt offer us a more calm mind with which wecould exam and improve our life and, in the end, health. Finally,the main reason I choose the amount of stress to enhance is that in order toreduce stress, one must reorganize and transform his routine life-suchsignificant change will not happen by simply enhance the food quality orexercise regimen. After all, due to the mind-body effect, stress is the mostvital psychological factor that affects the physical health significantly whilethe psychological health, which, if not more, is equally important, can beimproved simultaneously. Only when one is determined to reduce the stress wills/he rectify the unhealthy life and working environment that are the Pandora’sboxes of the stress. Through efforts to improve life style, one can experiencea profound and comprehensive improvement in various aspects of his/her lifewhich is the single best way to improve health effectively. Inconclusion, despite the possible effects of better food and more exercise,which after all are superficial and ineffective, I believe that to enhance thestress situation one will be able to better enjoy the better diet and exerciseregimen, to start a virtuous cycle rather than simply seeking remedies forunhealthy life routine, and most profoundly, to get rid of the source ofworsening health-the improper lifestyle-and lead a healthier lifestyle eversince.
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