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Dear All:
The following provides the link to an article I found to be very interesting. It talks about the adverse effects of "blowing your top off" on your health. Studies seem to show a strong correlation between anger and hostility and the risk of suffering a heart attack and heart disease in general.
http://cholesterolmatters.msn.com/article.aspx?aid=11
Doctors know how to approach high cholesterol, high blood pressure and other traditional risk factors, but when it comes to dealing with anger and hostility there is no ready answer, Eaker says.
"The question is, 'What can we do about it?'" Eaker says.
But there is little research on whether anger management can prevent a heart attack in people who do not yet have heart disease. Interestingly, exercising seems to be a good way to manage anger.
"My advice to people who experience anger and hostility frequently and intensely is to begin to identify triggers of their anger and to learn better ways of coping with those situations," says Williams. "Neither full-blown anger nor festering anger is healthy."
One way to let off steam, according to Milani, is to exercise. The New Orleans physician compares hostility to water running down a mountain: If it doesn't find an outlet, it will make its own path.
"Exercise is its own path," Milani says. Hostility may be "blunted" by the release provided by physical activity, he notes.
Finally, here's another interesting quote.
"It is regrettable that there are so few studies examining the relationship of anger and heart-disease risk among women," Williams says. "This is changing, however." She points out that in a recent large study she and her colleagues did not find any gender differences in the impact of anger on heart-disease risk.
In other words men may be from Mars and women from Venus but in blowing their tops off, everyone is the same - I mean when it come to being right here on Earth.
Charmed
The following provides the link to an article I found to be very interesting. It talks about the adverse effects of "blowing your top off" on your health. Studies seem to show a strong correlation between anger and hostility and the risk of suffering a heart attack and heart disease in general.
http://cholesterolmatters.msn.com/article.aspx?aid=11
Doctors know how to approach high cholesterol, high blood pressure and other traditional risk factors, but when it comes to dealing with anger and hostility there is no ready answer, Eaker says.
"The question is, 'What can we do about it?'" Eaker says.
But there is little research on whether anger management can prevent a heart attack in people who do not yet have heart disease. Interestingly, exercising seems to be a good way to manage anger.
"My advice to people who experience anger and hostility frequently and intensely is to begin to identify triggers of their anger and to learn better ways of coping with those situations," says Williams. "Neither full-blown anger nor festering anger is healthy."
One way to let off steam, according to Milani, is to exercise. The New Orleans physician compares hostility to water running down a mountain: If it doesn't find an outlet, it will make its own path.
"Exercise is its own path," Milani says. Hostility may be "blunted" by the release provided by physical activity, he notes.
Finally, here's another interesting quote.
"It is regrettable that there are so few studies examining the relationship of anger and heart-disease risk among women," Williams says. "This is changing, however." She points out that in a recent large study she and her colleagues did not find any gender differences in the impact of anger on heart-disease risk.
In other words men may be from Mars and women from Venus but in blowing their tops off, everyone is the same - I mean when it come to being right here on Earth.
Charmed
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