Is It Worth Dying For?

How To Make Stress Work For You - Not Against You

By: Robert S. Eliot

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Paperback | 1 April 1989 | Edition Number 1

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A groundbreaking examination of stress and its effects on health and disease

Cardiologist Robert S. Eliot identifies "hot reactors"-apparently healthy people who overreact to such common occurrences as losing a tennis game or missing a train. If you are a "hot reactor," you may 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 the ways in which stress affects the heart, the blood vessels, and the body and gives us new, objective ways of detecting stress before any damage is done. He offers a complete program for recognizing, reducing, and reversing the hidden effects of stress in your life-to make stress work for you, not against you.

You'll learn-
. How to take your own "stress temperature" (the results may surprise you)
. Whether you are a "hot" or "cold" reactor
. How to relieve work-related stress
. How to reduce your dependency on alcohol, drugs, and tobacco
. How to keep your sense of control and self-mastery in practically any situation
. Plus a complete stress-reducing nutrition plan; relaxation therapy techniques; and a twenty-minute-per day, three-day-per-week aerobic fitness program to strengthen your heart

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Non-Fiction Medicine Pre-Clinical Medicine & Basic Sciences Physiology Philosophy Fiction Modern & Contemporary Fiction Religion & Beliefs Religion Psychology Family & Health Coping with / Advice about Personal, Social & Health Topics

Coping with / Advice about Stress Relationships & Families: Advice & Issues Self-Help, Personal Development & Practical Advice Advice on Careers & Achieving Success Coping with Old Age / Advice about Ageing

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Foreword	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
Stress and the Hot Reactor
Stress: The Modern Epidemic	p. 13
Stress in Action: How Your Body Responds	p. 23
The Hot Reactors	p. 36
Hot Reacting, High Blood Pressure, and Heart Attack	p. 56
Are You a Hot Reactor?	p. 66
Learning to Manage Stress
Changing Your Self-Talks	p. 95
Clarifying Your Values	p. 112
Relaxing Your Body	p. 121
Increasing Your Fitness	p. 136
Making the Most of Support and Leisure	p. 154
Eating Right	p. 165
Managing Alcohol, Cigarettes, Caffeine, and Pills	p. 194
Relieving Stress on the Job	p. 209
Maintaining a Healthy Heart	p. 223
Epilogue: It's Not Worth Dying For	p. 233
Notes and Sources	p. 236
Recommended Reading	p. 243
Index	p. 248
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