Stress Not Good For Heart
Chronically stressed patients with coronary artery disease are at a threefold greater risk of dying when their hearts are under duress from exercising or mental stress. As anyone who has been in stressful situations knows, your heart races and your blood pressure increases, both leading to the heart’s need for oxygen-rich blood.
To optimize your heart’s health, eat right and exercise. For those who are at greater risk, you might want to consider avoiding:
- Chronic anxiety
- Depression
- Anger
- Public speaking
- Doing mental arithmetic
- Recounting an argument
myDNA, March 8, 2006
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Eating Fabulous » Stressed? Have a Cup of Tea!
Oct 5, 2006 at 8:59 am
[...] A double-blind placebo-controlled study has demonstrated that 6 weeks of tea consumption can help people recover from stressful situations. Although tea consumption may not lower the actual stress levels experienced, physiological indicators of stress such as cortisol, blood pressure, blood platelet and self-rated levels of stress levels, return to normal levels faster among tea-drinkers. Not only does tea seems to relieve stress, but on a long-term basis, this may also have preventive effects against other chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease. [...]
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