61.   Many of the techniques used by practitioners of alternative medicine may help to reduce stress, even if they do not meet the grander claims sometimes made for them.

62.   Moderate exercise improves digestion and sleep, reduces stress, provides endurance, and helps manage lower back pain, arthritis, and diabetes.

63.   Mild temperatures also are reducing stress on corn and soybean plants.

64.   MIT years ago redesigned windows to make jumping harder, and altered freshmen grading practices to try to reduce stress.

65.   Ms. Crewdson teaches the principles of the Alexander technique to reduce needless stress on muscles and joints.

66.   Nor is she offering techniques for fighting off exhaustion or reducing the stress of an intolerably harried life.

67.   Numerous studies have shown that owning a pet reduces stress.

68.   One of the major factors in reducing the stress of paying bills is establishing a method of keeping track of them.

69.   One theory is that surgical stress impairs immunity and laparoscopy reduced such stress.

70.   Oyler takes a diuretic to reduce fluid retention, another drug to stabilize her heart, and two others to reduce stress on it.