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Lighten Your Load and Save Your Life If you often feel angry and overwhelmed, like the stress in your life is spinning out of control, then you may be hurting your heart.如果你常常生气、身心疲乏，好像你生活中的压力正在快速地积聚，将要失去控制，那么你可能是在损害你的心脏了。 If you dont want to break your own heart, you need to learn to take charge of your life where you can—and recognize there are many things beyond your control.假如你不想损害自己的心脏，你就需要努力学会在力所能及的范围内控制自己的生活──并且承认有许多东西你是无法控制的。 So says Dr. Robert S. Eliot, author of a new book titled From Stress to Strength: How to Lighten Your Load and Save Your Life. Hes a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Nebraska. 这是罗伯特·S. 埃利奥特博士的观点。他是内布拉斯加大学的临床医学教授，新书《从压力到力量：怎样减轻你的负担，拯救你的生命》的作者。 Eliot says there are people in this world that he calls hot reactors. For these people, being tense may cause tremendous and rapid increases in their blood pressure. 埃利奥特说在这个世界上有一类他称之为“热核反应堆式的人”（即易怒的人）。对这些人来说，紧张会导致他们血压大幅度迅速上升。 Eliot says researchers have found that stressed people have higher cholesterol levels, among other things. Weve done years of work in showing that excess alarm or stress chemicals can literally burst heart muscle fibers. When that happens it happens very quickly, within five minutes. It creates many short circuits, and that causes crazy heart rhythms. The heart beats like a bag of worms instead of a pump. And when that happens, we cant live. 埃利奥特说，研究人员已经发现，有压力的人除了其他症状外，胆固醇的含量也较高。“我们已经做了多年研究，证明过分忧虑或紧张所产生的化学物质的确会损伤心肌纤维。这种情况发生时往往很快，不到5分钟。它会造成许多短路，而且这种短路会引起严重的心律不齐。心脏跳起来不像一个泵，而像一只装着蠕虫的袋子（杂乱而又绵软无力）。当这种情况发生时，我们就活不成了。” Eliot, 64, suffered a heart attack at age 44. He attributes some of the cause to stress. For years he was a hot reactor. On the exterior, he was cool, calm and collected, but on the interior, stress was killing him. Hes now doing very well. 　　现年64岁的埃利奥特，在44岁时曾有过一次心脏病发作，他把那次心脏病发作的部分原因归于压力。多年来，他一直是一个“热核反应堆式的人”。表面上，他显得沉着、冷静、泰然自若，但他内心深处的压力使他筋疲力尽.他现在身体状况很好。 The main predictors of destructive levels of stress are the FUD factors—fear, uncertainty and dou