e. Unfortunately the fashionable ones, usually the most accepted, are often the least accurate.

The most obvious example of this misunderstanding is equating stress with “busyness “ or being too busy. This allows us to blame our circumstances (job, family, etc.) and we may feel

You cannot be serious!
This is how many of my patients react when I tell them that tooth decay is a stress disease. It seems so far away from stress as a concept that it sounds absurd! How can you possibly connect the rotting of teeth with this ‘stress’ idea. Stress is probably the most talked about subject in popular health literature as well as increasingly in the more academic health literature. This is for very good reason. People have rightly begun to associate levels of stress in modern times with ill-health. People have noticed that stress not only affects the quality of our lives but have also contributes to the deterioration of the quality of our health in general. ‘Stress-related’ illness has become a password for modern times, - the bane of modern living.

What is Stress?
As is common with subjects that get a lot of airing, all sorts of notions can get mixed in with the discussion and misunderstandings become very commonplace.

In one sense it is extremely difficult to define exactly what is stress. Many definitions of stress have been put forward and some have become fashionable. Unfortunately the fashionable ones, usually the most accepted, are often the least accurate.

The most obvious example of this misunderstanding is equating stress with “busyness “ or being too busy. This allows us to blame our circumstances (job, family, etc.) and we may feel w

obably the most talked about subject in popular health literature as well as increasingly in the more academic health literature. This is for very good reason. People have rightly begun to associate levels of stress in modern times with ill-health. People have noticed that stress not only affects the quality of our lives but have also contributes to the deterioration of the quality of our health in general. ‘Stress-related’ illness has become a password for modern times, - the bane of modern living.

What is Stress?
As is common with subjects that get a lot of airing, all sorts of notions can get mixed in with the discussion and misunderstandings become very commonplace.

In one sense it is extremely difficult to define exactly what is stress. Many definitions of stress have been put forward and some have become fashionable. Unfortunately the fashionable ones, usually the most accepted, are often the least accurate.

The most obvious example of this misunderstanding is equating stress with “busyness “ or being too busy. This allows us to blame our circumstances (job, family, etc.) and we may feel

only affects the quality of our lives but have also contributes to the deterioration of the quality of our health in general. ‘Stress-related’ illness has become a password for modern times, - the bane of modern living.

What is Stress?
As is common with subjects that get a lot of airing, all sorts of notions can get mixed in with the discussion and misunderstandings become very commonplace.

In one sense it is extremely difficult to define exactly what is stress. Many definitions of stress have been put forward and some have become fashionable. Unfortunately the fashionable ones, usually the most accepted, are often the least accurate.

The most obvious example of this misunderstanding is equating stress with “busyness “ or being too busy. This allows us to blame our circumstances (job, family, etc.) and we may feel

get a lot of airing, all sorts of notions can get mixed in with the discussion and misunderstandings become very commonplace.

In one sense it is extremely difficult to define exactly what is stress. Many definitions of stress have been put forward and some have become fashionable. Unfortunately the fashionable ones, usually the most accepted, are often the least accurate.

The most obvious example of this misunderstanding is equating stress with “busyness “ or being too busy. This allows us to blame our circumstances (job, family, etc.) and we may feel

e. Unfortunately the fashionable ones, usually the most accepted, are often the least accurate.

The most obvious example of this misunderstanding is equating stress with “busyness “ or being too busy. This allows us to blame our circumstances (job, family, etc.) and we may feel we can do nothing about it. Yet we all know that it is perfectly possible to be extremely busy but perfectly at ease with our situation. Indeed we have all been in situations where although we have had a lot to do, we nonetheless feel happy and content with our lot.

Stress relates to feelings. If you are very busy, you might feel very happy that your business is flourishing. But if you are very busy and you feel that this is being caused unfairly by another who is not carrying his duties as he should, you might feel resentment at the amount of work that you are being asked to do. In both situations you are very busy but in one case you are feeling happy and in the other you are feeling deep resentment. You could say that stress is really an expression of our emotional well being. Stress then could be said to be any form of negative emotion or feeling such as fear, worry, doubt, anxiety, bitterness, regret, frustration, resentment, anger, rage etc.

And what has all that that to do with my rotten tooth, pray tell? Science tells us that the major factor in tooth decay is what they call ‘sugar frequency’.