This article was posted in the Deccan Chronicle 24 July 2011. By Dr O.P. Yadava
If the heart were to be likened to a badly behaved child, the main traits the person would suffer from would be anger and hostility besides a host of other habits like smoking, diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, physical inactivity, obesity etc! It’s a known fact that negative emotions, primarily in the form of anger and hostility are bad for the health in general and the heart in particular. Anger can break the heart literally and metaphorically.
Conceived in the head, these traits gnaw away at the heart, for the heart and mind cannot be separated. The two cross-talk through a process of chemical conversations with health of one affecting the health of the other and vice-versa. continue reading…
This was a question a patient asked me the other day.