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"HOSTILITY AND AGGRESSION Much has been written about the potential danger of hostility and aggression to our health. hostility is said to be the most important of the so-called Type A behavior traits related to coronary arteriosclerosis. Once again, focus is on perceived emotions. TMS theory would identify hostility and aggression as overt manifestations of something far more dangerous—repressed rage and suppressed anger. Physical symptoms, anxiety, depression or hostility are, in effect, equivalents of each other. They all reflect powerful processes going on in the unconscious." - John E. Sarno M.D., The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain (Get the book.)

"In the 1960s, cardiologists Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman, of the Mount Zion Medical Center in San Francisco, identified a cluster of overdrive behavior—constant hurriedness, hostility, and intense competitiveness—that seemed to characterize many of their patients with heart disease. They coined the term type A behavior to describe those individuals, and the name soon became common. Over the years, researchers have recognized that hurriedness and competitiveness are less damaging to the heart than hostility." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"In the sixteen years following the conclusion of the MRFIT trial, participants who were rated as highly hostile were far more likely to die of cardiovascular causes than men with low hostility scores; the most hostile men had a 240 percent greater risk of cardiovascular death than those exhibiting the least hostility. High-hostile men who had a non-fatal event during the trial were especially susceptible to cardiovascular death after the trial; with a greater than eight-fold risk increase for those in the highest category of hostility!" - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"HOSTILITY AND AGGRESSION Much has been written about the potential danger of hostility and aggression to our health. hostility is said to be the most important of the so-called Type A behavior traits related to coronary arteriosclerosis. Once again, focus is on perceived emotions. TMS theory would identify hostility and aggression as overt manifestations of something far more dangerous—repressed rage and suppressed anger. Physical symptoms, anxiety, depression or hostility are, in effect, equivalents of each other. They all reflect powerful processes going on in the unconscious." - John E. Sarno M.D., The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain (Get the book.)

"Quick Tip 2: A study published in the January 2004 issue of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition found a statistically significant relationship between consuming fish rich in omega-3 fats and lower hostility scores in 3,581 young urban adults. Those with the highest intake of omega-3 fats had only a 10% likelihood of having the highest hostility scores. A second reason this finding is important: hostility has been shown to predict the development of heart disease." - Jan Lovejoy, Get Balanced-the Natural Way to Better Health with Superfoods (Get the book.)

"Research has shown that insulin resistance is associated with stress, hostility, and high cynicism. A 2006 study published in Psychosomaf/c Medicine reports that people with high levels of hostility typically have worse insulin resistance when they are experiencing stress, especially high levels of chronic stress. It is possible that stress-reduction methods may help in this context (see chapter 9). How to Prevent or Reverse Insulin Resistance The good news is that there are effective, easy-to-adopt ways to change the course of insulin resistance at the cellular level." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Dysphoria is painful emotion; irritability is overreacting with anger or hostility; aggression and suicide speak for themselves. This heavily relied-upon diagnostic authority further warns that akathisia can lead to "worsening of psychotic symptoms or behavioral dyscontrol." Behavioral dyscontrol means loss of impulse control. Almost the entire description applies to Harry Henderson, as well as to many other cases in Medication Madness." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Keppra-treated patients in controlled clinical trials experienced behavioral symptoms "reported as aggression, agitation, anger, anxiety, apathy, depersonalization, depression, emotional lability, hostility, irritability, etc." In addition, 0.7 percent of patients became psychotic and 0.5 percent became suicidal with one completed suicide. That's a grand total of 14.5 percent of patients with psychiatric adverse events that were probably caused by the drug." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Who can say what emotions—resentment? hostility?—were generated in these three groups of patients as a result of how prayer was offered?"17 The fact that the people who knew they were being prayed for not only had no placebo response but also evidenced more postsurgical complications than any other group, he says, "suggests that very strange internal dynamics were operating within the Harvard prayer study." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"With a couple of exceptions, the hospital staff responded to my evaluation of Uri with a mixture of coolness and hostility. Despite my most earnest efforts during my presentation, the hospital doctors did not agree to change anything about how they were medicating him. Seeing their reluctance to face the strong probability that Uri was a long-term victim of psychiatric mistreatment, I offered to act as an ongoing consultant in his case or to treat him myself in my private practice." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"But so too, many felt, was what some researchers began to call "the stress of social homophobia," the enormous hostility toward gay lifestyles manifest in much of mainstream American culture. In his book And the Band Played On, AIDS activist Randy Shilts quoted American evangelist Jerry Falwell, saying of the thousands who were dying at the time of AIDS, "When you violate moral, health, and hygiene laws, you reap the whirlwind. You cannot shake your fist in God's face and get by with it." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Patients on antidepressants and their families or caregivers should watch for worsening depression symptoms, unusual changes in behavior and thoughts of suicide, as well as for anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, difficulty sleeping, irritability, hostility, aggressiveness, impulsivity, restlessness, or extreme hyperactivity. Call the doctor if you have thoughts of suicide or if any of these symptoms are severe or occur suddenly. Be especially observant at the beginning of treatment or whenever there is a change in dose. You should not stop taking PROZAC abruptly." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The West Coast Family Heart Study found a reduction in both depression and aggressive hostility among those on a low-fat, cholesterol-lowering program compared to the control group eating the standard high-fat diet.3 And in a large study from Scandinavia, patients with coronary artery disease were randomly chosen to receive either a cholesterol-lowering drug or a placebo, a harmless pill containing no medication. The members of the group that took the drug lowered their cholesterol by an average of 35 percent." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"His writings reveal an enormous ego—he is distinctly wanting in respect for his predecessors, up to and including Augustus himself—an extraordinary command of detail, and a brutal and decisive hostility to everything that he considered an enemy of the Church, whether from within—Donatists, Nestorians, and Arians—or from without, such as pagans and Jews." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"In the case of the ACS, this indifference reaches the level of overt hostility (4). These and other concerns relating to fiscal malpractice led the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the authoritative U.S. charity watchdog, to charge that the ACS is "more interested in accumulating wealth than saving lives". ACS allocations for what primary prevention activities it does engage in, primarily tobacco cessation programs and low-fat diets, are only about 0.1 percent of its budget of about $1 billion annually." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Something about the loss of self-respect and the resentment, if not hostility, that results from the sense of abject vulnerability associated with and imposed by poverty is clearly detrimental. There are hints of other associations from life-course studies of nutrition, life-stage maturation, and more. Much remains unknown, but it is clear that the array of psychosocial challenges to be faced in poverty day by day, and that prove insurmountable day after day, levy a toll on health and longevity like none other in the "advanced" world." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"He advised that the best way to handle FUD and stress—particularly intense situations of hostility, anger, and explosive rage—was to be aware that these emotions carry a heavy price, including the potential for sudden death. His mantra was: "Don't sweat the small stuff. . . it's all small stuff, anyway." He was also known for glib phrases such as: "People who smoke together, croak together." We highly recommend his book as a humorous read about a serious subject. Eliot's title is well taken. Is any emotional event worth dying for? Obviously, no. A short fuse doesn't make for a long life." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"I was creating feelings of anger and hostility from the thoughts I was having. There was a conflict between the situation at hand—what I call the "what is"—and what I think "should be." In this case, the "should" was that when someone promises you they are telling you the truth, then they should do so. It was this that was upsetting me. There was a conflict between my personal values and the fact that someone else had not lived up to them. As I began to explore the issue more fully, I put myself in his shoes." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"New analyses now began to suggest that just two traits associated with the original Type A behavior pattern—but originally not given much emphasis—did indeed conduce to heart attack: hostility and cynicism.67 With this new twist, however, no longer are we unambiguously in a world in which people are broken by the stress, self-imposed or otherwise, of modern life. Instead, we are in a new narrative world about the effects of poor interpersonal relationships and social isolation on health (this is the subject of the next chapter, "Healing Ties")." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Thus the first object of the child's hostility is identical with the first object of its love, and its first ideal (which thereafter is retained as the unconscious basis of all images of bliss, truth, beauty, and perfection) is that of the dual unity of the Madonna and Bambino.4 The unfortunate father is the first radical intrusion of another order of reality into the beatitude of this earthly restatement of the excellence of the situation within the womb; he, therefore, is experienced primarily as an enemy." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.) "With the final "extirpation of delusion, desire, and hostility" (Nirvana) the mind knows that it is not what it thought: thought goes. The mind rests in its true state. And here it may dwell until the body drops away. Stars, darkness, a lamp, a phantom, dew, a bubble, A dream, a flash of lightning, and a cloud: Thus we should look upon all that was made.122 The Bodhisattva, however, does not abandon life." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"And studies have strongly suggested that increased fish oil intake could reduce anger and hostility in alcoholics, troubled teenagers, and violence-prone prisoners. "Clearly omega-3 fatty acids are essential to good brain health," says my friend Daniel Amen, M.D., professor of psychiatry at University of California-Irvine and the author of Healing ADD and Change Your Brain, Change Your Life. One More Benefit Another one of the many benefits of omega-3s is that they are anti-inflammatory." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Then came outright fear and hostility. I knew they were natural responses, but I also knew they wouldn't help me." Coincidentally, Terry had recently attended one of our seminars and had been particularly taken by the notion of assertively living Centralities and thought they might help her now. In Terry's case, however, fly-fishing was an impossible match with chemotherapy and isolation. But Terry got creative. Before her first treatment, she purchased a fly-tying kit and hired an expert to teach her the art of making her own flies." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"People prone to hostility show much longer increases in blood pressure and stress hormones. Did you know that accountants die from heart attacks more during tax season because their oxidized cholesterol goes way up due to stress? And did you know that the single largest incidence of heart attacks?8 percent—occur on Monday morning? Cardiologists call this phenomenon Monday morning syndrome. Recently, researchers at Tokyo Women's Medical University also found that many workers suffer a spike in blood pressure as they return to the office after the weekend." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Kellogg himself was outspoken in his hostility to the pleasures of eating: "The decline of a nation commences when gourmandizing begins." If that is so, America had little reason to worry. America's early attraction to various forms of scientific eating may also have reflected discomfort about the way other people eat: the weird, messy, smelly, and mixed-up eating habits of immigrants." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"These include anxiety, mild or moderate depression, anger, hostility, hot flashes of menopause, infertility, PMS, high blood pressure, and heart attacks. Every one can be caused by stress or exacerbated by it. And to the extent that that's the case, the relaxation response is helpful." DESERT ISLAND CURES Apple Cider Vinegar LET ME COME CLEAN: I have a checkered history with apple cider vinegar. The scientist in me wants to see some hard research supporting its health claims." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"But the increasingly secular sensibilities of the time combined with the growing hostility of the civic authorities toward the Church to make Gassner's very successes the cause of his undoing. The medical profession complained; the local authorities complained; and in 1774, by order of Prince Max Joseph of Bavaria, a commission was set up to investigate all these goings-on. One of the experts invited to assist in the investigation was a young physician named Franz Anton Mesmer." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Steroids cause just as many disorders as the conditions for which they are used, including liver cancer, heart disease, depression, hostility and aggression, eating disorders, stunted height, risk of HIV, acne, and dozens more. Tamoxifen is a popular drug now used to prevent breast cancer recurrence in women. The drug can cause weight gain of up to 25 pounds, enough to dramatically increase the risk of other cancers, heart disease, and diabetes." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"In our centuries of social evolution, it's found many disguises to wear. hostility, jealousy, hatred, embarrassment, and greed often cover underlying fear. We frequently work with people like Jayne who are under extreme emotional distress. The emotional pain never really goes away. As traumatic and life-changing as these situations are, getting through them and living with the pain they cause comes down to a fundamental choice." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

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