Know The HEALTH FACTS ... Because WEALTH THRU PERSONAL HEALTH is a COMMITMENT... NOT A CHOICE!
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Driving well in the Philippines takes courage, expertise and coolness. One can’t miss a day without somebody cutting you off in traffic without regard to safety. We hear stories about fights due to parking and even to the point of murder due to the lack of “COOLNESS…” We have workers in our workplace or household helpers that can be triggers of our anger.
But the next time somebody or something bad triggers a reaction of ANGER… think and pause for a moment and contemplate on what scientific studies have shown.
A recent review done by Harvard researchers concluded that literally… “Anger Can Brake Ones Heart.” It is estimated that being angry is synonymous to putting ones heart at 3x the risk of developing heart attack and 14 fold increase in risk of stroke.
An interesting study by researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine on anger showed that after tracking 1,055 medical students for 36 years, ” the hotheads were six times more likely to suffer heart attacks by age 55 and three times more likely to develop any form of heart or blood vessel disease than the cooler heads.”
I am sure you know of friends or relatives that being angryis already part of their daily lives. It may be their natural reaction to something that irritates them. These are the people that may require some help. The Harvard researchers recently found as published in Harvard Mens Health Watch, September issue, that a single low-dose (81 mg) pill can reduce anger-caused heart attacks by 40 percent. In other words, a daily aspirin may cut the risk of breaking an angry heart by almost half. Do you need Aspirin? Your own family doctor can advise you better.
So the next time something stresses you out or somebody irritates you…think twice before you act…
Protect Your Heart… Be COOL!
That Health Rules 
January 10, 2007 at 11:43 pm
This info should be taught to parents and very young children.
I dont know about anyone else, but learning about how I’ve been slowly killing myself for the last 25 years only serves to make me more angry.
Its not like changing my personality now will erase the decade of harm I have caused my heart. At best, with help now I might hope to live until 60 instead of 35. How am I supposed to react to this lowered life-expectency except in more anger and resentment?
Like I said, incorporate this info into gradeschool health education, and you will save peoples’ lives. But for some adults, it is too late.
January 11, 2007 at 7:36 am
Absolutely… and thanks for the input.
The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologist in fact has this program where fellow endocrinologists all over th world will go to schools to teach the so called: POP or the Power of Prevention. Soon I will be part of this program and definitely will serve time to help educate people starting from the young the power of prevention from obesity to chronic illnesses like diabetes and heart disease.
I guess this is also the reason why I went into this medium of communication because my infos can be accessed by anybody all over the world. Whatever education I can share should at most help other people share to others that need the advise most.
April 9, 2007 at 9:30 am
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