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This resolution seeks to raise awareness about the serious health impacts of stress by throwing Congressional support behind naming April 2015 as “National Stress Awareness Month.”

First, this resolution runs through a number of statistics about stress, including that:

Employees believe that they’re more stressed than the previous generation;
Workers who report being more stressed miss more time and have higher healthcare expenses in the long run;
Stress can mess up a person's digestive, cardiovascular and skeletal systems;
Few people take measures to prevent stress like exercising and eating healthy.

As far as actual resolutions go, this one would make Congress resolve to:

Support calling April National Stress Awareness Month and the goals behind it;
Recognize Department of Health and Human Services’s (DHHS) work in educating people about stress;
Encourage people to observe the month.

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