““One sign of the strength of the connection between mind and body is the finding, in an analysis of more than one hundred studies linking emotions and health, that people who are chronically distressed—whether anxious and worried, depressed and pessimistic, or angry and hostile—have double the average risk of getting a major disease in the ensuing years. Smoking increases the risk of serious disease by 60 percent; chronic emotional distress by 100 percent. This makes distressing emotion almost double the health risk compared with smoking.””
