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Medicine had for long supported the idea that the mind effects the body. Researches had shown that hostility can be harmful for your heart, just like, high blood-pressure, high cholesterol and smoking. Now, the question arises, is ambition bad? Is competitiveness cutting my life short? "No," tells psychologists. Ambition is not a problem. Aggressiveness is not a problem. But hostility is the problem. There is a straight forward biological explanation. The human body is designed to respond to stressful situations with a cascade of changes. In crisis, your heart beats faster and harder; arteries that carry blood to your muscles dilate, so that blood flow increases still more; your platelets become stickier so that you are less likely to bleed to death if your attacker takes a bite out of you. It is a fine system if you are running from a lion, but it will have a disastrous effect if you are consistently under stress, when you are facing a traffic snarl, or apprehensive about meeting a deadline. As blood surges through your artery and stress hormones pour from your adrenal glands, smooth artery walls begin to get scratched and erode. Then fatty cells clump on that pocked surface, like mineral deposits in an old water pipe. Arteries narrow, blood flow decreases, and you heart and brain are starved of oxygen. This spiral leads to chest pains or strokes or heart attacks.

We cannot stop anger and anger has its place in the world. There is injustice in the world, and righteous indignation is an honorable emotion. Psychologists say that an occasional burst of anger is fine; a permanent snarl is not. Hostile people are perpetually suspicious, wary and snappish, forever tense and on edge. Hostility is harmful because it feeds on itself, leaving its victim feeling precariously alone. Various studies have shown that people with friends, family and even pets, fare better than those without such support. So what should a hostile person do? The advice from experts is surprisingly straight forward: Relax, take a deep breathe and decide whether the latest injustice really merits a battle.