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The best thing you can do in times of high stress may be the one thing you don’t want to do. That thing? Get some exercise.

When Christopher Reeve fell from his horse, suffering catastrophic injuries that left him paralyzed, he forever altered not only the course of his, and his family's, life but he also assumed a public persona distinct from his identity as an actor and celebrity.

Anyone who has ever endured the misery of a migraine or the agony of an infected tooth can easily relate to the images of a pounding hammer or a merciless drill. It’s as if the pain itself assumes a shape or an active image separate from the intensity of physical suffering that it engenders.

Concern about what people are eating and how those habits affect overall health — from increasing the risk of obesity (soda) to affecting heart health (trans fats) — has many people considering how to encourage consumers to make healthier choices.

Growing older, while preferable to the alternative, is a process that most of us view with a combination of dread and more dread.