Heart - front image[/caption]Carol Forsloff---Many people pass along politically toxic material, often through emails or on social media, but doing so over the long haul can hurt your heart according to experts.
Stress comes about when we take on arguments with the passion that is often extreme. Some folks don't let go when someone brings up a different point of view contrary to their own. They complain about people who differ with them, often in disagreeable tones and with name-calling. So views that are extreme are then presented in some extreme fashion.
The stress that develops over time from political arguments can escalate to invasion of one's personal and emotional health. That's particularly true when the arguments occur over something over which an individual may have limited control. In fact, the less control one has over a key area or idea, the more stressful it becomes. Often folks worry over things they can't control, and it is these random notions that can impede emotional and physical health, experts tell us.
Everyone has a point of view about everyday politics. Some are right, and some are wrong, depending on the facts and resources to substantiate and verify them. Yet when the argument becomes so passionate that reason takes one down to passion, it is then that stress increases. And stress can kill.
Modern medicine has determined that stress has the same impact on a person's health as smoking. Therefore, when it comes time to argue about something no one in particular can control individually, and when the facts are distributed equally on both sides, it might be time to walk away. For in doing that, one can save a life, namely their own.
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