You exercise, you eat right, you get a good night's sleep, and you try to stay organized; you're doing everything you can to manage your own stress. But what if you work with someone who isn't managing stress well?

Regardless of where you might work, there are a lot of reasons for stress in today's workplace -- threats of layoff, increased workload due to reduced staffing, and so on. When you add in all the non-work-related causes of stress, it's no wonder some people aren't managing the pressure well. And, no matter how well you handle stress, when a co-worker is stressing you'll be affected by it.

So what can you do to help a stressed out co-worker? As long as you don't take on the reasons for their stress (e.g. taking their workload), it's a good thing to help out. And, if you happen to be the boss, it's imperative that you do so in order to maintain a positive workplace and to prevent productivity from slipping. Some ideas:

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If you've ever received swell dietary advice from a doctor of friend about how to best eat (and keep that weight off), you most likely did have an improvement in high cholesterol and blood pressure markers according to a new study.

In the study, the nutrition habits of subjects in 38 different studies were looked at, and then correlated to whether dietary advice had been given to those individuals. The advice generally consisted of lessening salt and fat intake while eating more fruits, veggies and fiber-containing products.

It's heartening to hear that those who received and followed advice increased their fruit and vegetable consumption to 1 1/4 servings per day compared to those that did not receive any dietary advice. In addition, modest declines in LDL (bad) cholesterol were noted in those that heeded the dietary advice.

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