Why is it that the American diet has taken such a nosedive, steering us swiftly into a health crisis characterized by more diabetes, more heart disease, more cancer? Our life expectancies are down, our health costs are up, and we're fatter than ever.

Is it because our lifestyles have become comfort driven -- we'd rather ride than walk, rather carry-out than cook-in -- and crazy fast all at the same time? Could be, says Dorianne Schwaiger at Divine Caroline.

Time management is one key to maintaining a healthy way of life. Try this: Thirty minutes of planned exercise at least three times per week, plan grocery trips and take a list to guide the way, stock your pantry with healthy ingredients, cut out the coffee shop stops where latte and danish live, get outside, and sleep plenty.

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Are you in your mid-to-late 20s and still living with your parents? Did you spend four or five years at university and wind up thousands of dollars in debt, working at a job that you can't imagine going back to tomorrow let alone for the rest of you life? Are all of your friends starting to settle down, get married, buy homes and have kids? And finally, does all of the above really freak you out?

If you answered yes to these questions, you could be suffering from a quarterlife crisis. This relatively new phenomena is similar to the better known midlife crisis, but while the midlife crisis is known to affect men (and women to a lesser extent) in their 40s who want to reclaim their youth, the quarterlife crisis attacks the psyche of twentysomethings trying to negotiate the ever-expanding gap between adolescence and adulthood.

I once participated in a class discussion about the affliction at university and nearly every other student admitted that they suffered from mild to extreme anxiety over the direction that their lives were (or weren't) taking. Perhaps the worst thing is that there's no solution or cure, we all just have to make the best choices we can with the information that we've learned so far and ride it out until we hit our 30s.

If you are suffering from a quarterlife crisis, you can at least take comfort in the fact that there's an entire Web site devoted to the affliction where you can chat with thousands of others going through the same things you are. You may be feeling lost and misguided, but at least you're not alone.

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When life throws you a curve ball and something terrible happens, you have two choices: wallow in self-pity or do your best to pick up and move on in the best way you can, learning from the experience. It's only natural to feel angry, depressed, or stressed out and anxious. The important thing is that you bounce back, and good news: resilience can be learned.

So don't worry if you haven't always been strong in the past, read these suggestions and see if they help you better deal the next time you're facing a rough patch.

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