Is It Worth Dying For? How to Make Stress Work for You - Not Against You

Name: Is It Worth Dying For? How to Make Stress Work for You - Not Against You
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ISBN: 9780553344264

ISBN-10: 0553344269

ISBN-13: 9780553344264

Edition: Revised

Authors: Robert S. Eliot, Dennis L. Breo

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Is It Worth Dying For? is the most important examination of stress and its effects on health and disease in years. In this groundbreaking book, cardiologist Dr. Robert S. Eliot identifies "hot reactors"-apparently healthy people who overreact dangerously to such common occurrences as losing a tennis game or missing a train. If you are a "hot reactor," you can be responding to stress with an all-out physical effort that is taking a heavy toll on your health...without your even being aware of it. Based on more than twenty years of research with thousands of patients, Is It Worth Dying For? takes stress management out of pop psychology and puts it into mainstream medicine. Dr. Eliot identifies…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/1/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.24" wide x 8.27" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Foreword



Introduction



Stress and the Hot Reactor



Stress: The Modern Epidemic



Stress in Action: How Your Body Responds



The Hot Reactors



Hot Reacting, High Blood Pressure, and Heart Attack



Are You a Hot Reactor?



Learning to Manage Stress



Changing Your Self-Talks



Clarifying Your Values



Relaxing Your Body



Increasing Your Fitness



Making the Most of Support and Leisure



Eating Right



Managing Alcohol, Cigarettes, Caffeine, and Pills



Relieving Stress on the Job



Maintaining a Healthy Heart


Epilogue: It's Not Worth Dying For


Notes and Sources


Recommended Reading


Index