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Loading...Hostility and Anger Speed Decline in Lung Function
- Michelle Schoffro Cook
- July 27, 2012
- 4:11 pm
- 38 comments
Here’s a good reason not to engage in road rage: In an eight-year American study of 670 men aged 45 to 86, researchers found that longstanding anger and hostility sped up age-related lung decline. In other words, it caused the men’s lung function to deteriorate faster than it normally would.
The researchers accounted for other factors such as smoking and education that are factors in lung health. Researchers found that anger and hostility alter neurological and hormonal processes which may negatively impact the body’s immune system and create excessive levels of inflammation.
Does that mean you shouldn’t express anger? Of course not, just find a healthy outlet for it like running, art, writing it out, or some other form of expression. Just don’t repress it or take it out on someone else.
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Michelle Schoffro Cook
Michelle Schoffro Cook, MSc, RNCP, ROHP, DNM, PhD is an international best-selling and 14-time book author and doctor of traditional natural medicine, whose works include: 60 Seconds to Slim, Healing Recipes, The Vitality Diet, Allergy-Proof, Arthritis-Proof, Total Body Detox, The Life Force Diet, The Ultimate pH Solution, The 4-Week Ultimate Body Detox Plan, and The Phytozyme Cure. Check out her natural health resources and subscribe to her free e-magazine World's Healthiest News at WorldsHealthiestDiet.com to receive monthly health news, tips, recipes and more. Follow her on Twitter @mschoffrocook and Facebook.
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+ add your ownWorth keeping in mind.
road rage is the pits and I have been a victim. I didnt say a word while this manic man screamed at me. It was his fault b/c of the road rules and he knew it but b/c he was driving a large truck in my street he decided to give it too me. He wont live long, if he continues to drive how he did and yell and scream red faced. Boy oh boy what a pain he was. Im fine!
good info, thanks
Something to think about though my hubby drives professionally and stays pretty calm.
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