Category Archives: stress

Breast Cancer Recovery Negatively Hit by Unhappy Marriages

March 27, 2009 – 8:02 am

As further proof that one’s mental and emotional state of health plays a great part in preventing and combating disease, a study has shown a link between marital problems and poorer survival for breast cancer sufferers.
Some healing modalities, such as German New Medicine, advocate that emotional trauma and stress is the root cause of disease. [...]

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Mental and Emotional Health Help Prevent Breast Cancer; Traumatic Events Raise Risk

March 27, 2009 – 6:58 am

When you are happy, optimistic and positive, your body’s immune system responds happily and healthily, too. On the other hand, when you are sad, depressed, angry or pessimistic, your immune system also gets depressed, and your body produces all sorts of harmful chemicals.
It is therefore not surprising at all that being happy and optimistic is [...]

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Breast Cancer Survival Rates Boosted by Psychological Counseling

January 13, 2009 – 3:27 am

A recent study has suggested that psychological counseling may boost breast cancer patients’ likelihood of survival.
By undergoing sessions which focused on improving mood, effective coping and altering health behaviors, it seemed the patients’ stress levels were reduced and this helped them to live longer.

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Diet, Stress and Cancer Risk

December 28, 2008 – 11:00 am

Intuitively as well as scientifically, we have a feel of how stress and diet both play large roles in cancer development. A study published in August 2008 in the International Journal of Oncology has given us some clues of how these two factors may interact to affect cancer risk.
The article below summarizes this study. A [...]

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