Saturday, October 13, 2007
Stress contributes to range of chronic diseases, Carnegie Mellon psychologist says
eurecalert.org: "In a review of the scientific literature on the relationship between stress and disease, Carnegie Mellon University psychologist Sheldon Cohen has found that stress is a contributing factor in human disease, and in particular depression, cardiovascular disease and HIV/AIDS. Cohen’s findings will be published in the Oct. 10 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The article was co-authored by Denise Janicki-Deverts of Carnegie Mellon and Gregory E. Miller of the University of British Columbia."
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how interesting to find direct correlations between stress and disease. it seems to be obvious that there would be some kind of effect on the entire psyche based on stress but to then find that there are diseases that seem to have no direct relationship with the issue of stress is really interesting to me... and kind of a suspicious thing to assert as well... i will be interested to read further into the topic. all this does is make me worry about my health later in life...on top of my choice to work in the arts.
This starts to put "stress" in the category of things that are unhealthy, ex. smoking, eating poorly, not exercising. But with stress, how exactly do you go about counteracting it? You can try and exercise more, eat healthier, and just avoid smoking all together, but these things take more time. And time is one thing that causes a LOT of stress, (or lack of time). I was fortunately raised eating healthy and being active, and there is no way I am putting a cigarette in my mouth, so the issues of eating good food and getting exercise are not that big of a problem for me, but the stress factor is huge, I am actually more stressed out if I don't get to eat as well as I would like to, or am not able to ride my bike some days. But there is that one little problem with the industry I chose to go into. It can be VERY stressful and that's mainly because of the lack of time. So until we are able to manage our lives spectacularly, or can control time, there will still be a good amount of stress in our lives.
I don't know if I really believe this. A lot of people who aren't stressed out still eat unhealthy and smoke. People being stressed means that they don't have time to eat healthy all the time and sometimes they are stressed out so they smoke. They claim that being stressed out causes people to eat unhealthy which causes diseases however I don't think this is the right conclusion. All they have proven is that being stressed out causes people to have worse habits. Not all people stressed out eat unhealthy and people who aren't stress still eat unhealthy so there really isn't a valid conclusion here at least for me.
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