Four out of five adults get stressed every week,and one in ten are stressed all the time. What category do you fall into? or maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t suffer at all, but for the millions of us who do, there are some things we can try to combat the effects.

We are constantly under pressure from external sources, and work stress isn’t just restricted to the workplace with our technological culture making it easy to receive emails and calls out side of work hours, along with financial worries and health worries, it seems that there is no escape.

The findings from this particular survey seem to indicate that men suffer more than women.

Many of those questioned said to ease the pressure they watch tv, read a book, exercise or drink alcohol. It’s encouraging to see that almost a third of people interviewed turned to exercise. It’s much healthier than smoking or drinking.

Physical activity has positive effects on our health, but we also need to make sure we are getting the correct nutrients from our diet. Stress uses up a lot of energy, so we need to be taking in extra calories, which could lead to bingeing on sugary or junk snack foods, so make sure you are getting a healthy supply of snacks and stay away from takeaways if you can.

We can start to feel more tired but actually get less sleep and suffer from brain fog or irritability.Increase your intake of b vitamins and folate, and try to get some valuable vitamin by getting out in the sun,which can prove very challenging at this time of year, but is vital to our sense of well being.