There's no way to avoid stress. Throughout the course of your day or week, dozens of stressful situations have the potential to arise. A traffic jam makes you late for a big presentation, or your computer crashes right before an important deadline.

Fad diets have long been popular in America. Although by now most of us know that these extreme approaches are not the surest path to long-term weight management, we still succumb to illogical food plans that include nothing but coffee and grapefruit, eggs and meat, or cabbage soup for weeks.