Are you a hard charging executive type? Are you a parent who feels like there are thirty hours worth of work to do keeping your family on the right track, and only 24 hours to work with? Well, that is the modern world, isn't it? Unfortunately, a couple of parts of the modern world can be very deadly to you over time.
Ours is a world that is slathered in grease, coated in sugar and then subjected to enough constant stress to make people literally pop.
That's what an aneurysm is, after all...
just your brain popping, because your arteries can no longer take the onslaught.
We pump our bodies full of sugar and stress hormones, and then we wonder why we end up fat and miserable.
The secret really isn't a secret at all, when you think about it! When a person gets up after only five or six hours of sleep, then dumps a bunch of caffeine and sugar into their system and believes it's a satisfactory meal, that is getting one's day off to a pretty bad start.
And when the entire day is spent in a state that sort of resembles panic about the latest project at work, the latest bill that depletes your savings, and the latest issue that needs to be resolved in your kids' lives, it really makes you wonder why more people don't just collapse into psychotic episodes.
Still, we carry on.
Stuffing ourselves with more sugar, we think we're keeping ourselves going.
What we're really doing is attacking our own bodies, and basically begging for the onset of Type 2 diabetes.
And with our veins surging with stress hormones, we're basically telling ourselves on a chemical level that we are in a constant, never-ending life or death struggle.
Needless to say, this is not a healthy way to go about a life.
Heart attacks, strokes, diabetic comas, blindness and even the amputation of limbs can result from this dreadful cocktail of unfortunate lifestyle choices.
Pumping your body full of chemicals may seem like the best idea at the time, but it ultimately isn't.
In fact, it may shorten your lifespan by a long shot.
The hard question is, how can a person escape the grind of life and get on a healthier path, without chucking it all and moving to a commune somewhere? Well, it isn't easy, but lots of worthwhile things in life are a little tricky to pull off.
For one thing, you need to learn to say no.
For another, you need to commit yourself to:

• eating real meals (preferably that aren't handed to you through a window)
• getting a full night's sleep every night, and
• not treating every little thing like a huge crisis

Would panicking help in a real crisis? Of course not! But neither does the food that stressed out people crave.
Stressed people crave sugary and fatty foods...
not healthy salads...
its cookies, ice cream or even fries (chips).
One of the hormones released under stress is cortisol and this hormone triggers appetite and favors fat storage...
so added pounds around your midsection, cardiovascular disease and even the development of Type 2 diabetes.