Stress

by Walter McQuade, Ann Aikman

A guide to stress shows readers the role that it plays in heart disease, cancer, and hypertension, and discusses biofeedback, new findings about the Type A personality, allergies, asthma, and meditation.

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 26, 1975

Reviews

[May Ling]

I think this book is absolutely wonderful! Written in 1974, it predates the pharmaceutical companies taking a stranglehold on common sense. A lot of the studies cited in the book have become forgotten hallmarks in loue of a society that wants fast answers in a go-go mentality.



This book offers studies that show very clearly the correlation between stress v. cholesterol and heart failure. It one-up's most studies in that it is able to actually meet all the criteria of causal logic, where most cholesterol related studies primarily correlation based. Simplified, the book shows that before stress levels have increased with GDP increase. When GDP was not on the rise back in the 1930's very few doctors ever saw a coronary patient. However, GDP has risen dramatically and the correlation to stress, even after controls is higher than any other factor, even cholesterol.



For a nation like the US where we work the most hours and take the least vacation days, this is a real wake-up call.