Apparently all manner of stress — whether it’s bad morning traffic, or the death of someone you love — can harm your health in deep and profound ways. That’s according to a soon-to-be published study by researchers at Oregon State University. But the key, as NPR reports, is how you manage your stress:
Chronic stress is hazardous to health and can lead to early death from heart disease, cancer and of other health problems. But it turns out it doesn’t matter whether the stress comes from major events in life or from minor problems. Both can be deadly.
And it may be that it’s not the stress from major life events like divorce, illness and job loss trickled down to everyday life that gets you; it’s how you react to the smaller, everyday stress.
The most stressed-out people have the highest risk of premature death, according to one study that followed 1,293 men for years.
[For more of this story, written by Rachel Zimmerman, go to http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2...toxic-stress-of-life]
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