A look at how much we've learned about stress at home and at work: at why some of us break down under it more quickly than others and at how we can help ourselves to meet it unscathed.
Dr Malcolm Carruthers of St Mary's Hospital advocates schools where the middle-aged can go to choose which killers to avoid: Peter Blythe discusses physical clues as to who will break down under stress and Professor Ivor Mills paints a daunting picture of the decline of our race as we are driven - by stress - into ' a lemming-like journey to our own destruction.'
Producer JENNY DE YONG BBC Birmingham