Is It Worth Dying For?: A Self-Assessment Program to Make Stress Work for You, Not Against You

by Robert S. Eliot and Dennis L. Breo

Book Overview

A groundbreaking examination of stress and its effects on health and disease Cardiologist Robert S. Eliot identifies "hot reactors"--apparently healthy people who overreact to such common occurrences... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553050397
• ISBN13: 9780553050394
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful!

I've ordered several copies of this book to hand out to others. While some of the studies are dated, the results are still proven true by even newer studies. This book helps define what type of behaviour you exhibit and how it affects your health. It goes over the three "C"s of getting through stress. I think this book is easy to understand and easier still to apply it to your individual life. BUY IT for yourself or someone who really needs to take a look at their life behaviours.

This is worth reading

This book has changed my life! It is really a great book. If you are stressed out or trying to figure out how to move forward, buy this book. My instructor had the whole class reading it and we are hooked. Seriously, this book is amazing!

Real medical advice on stress, high blood pressure and weight control.

This book clearly presents solid medical advice about stress, blood pressure and weight. No miracle diets, no junk science, no fads - just time tested information presented in a persuasive way. Topics range from adjusting your attitude to improving your exercise and diet. This book is a great reference that has helped me control my weight and blood pressure without drugs.

Is It Really Worth Dying For?

Buy this book! Learn to refocus the positive aspects of your type A personality for success. Don't let the title fool you. This is not about sitting back in a rocking chair after your first coronary event. Instead, this cardiologist who's as Type A as the rest of us explains how to know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em in dealing with personal, professional and day-to-day social hassles. A great chapter on self talk and how it can frustrate adult stress. And a great chapter with quizzes on dealing with stresses. Take the quizzes on separate sheets of paper, date them, share them or have your significant other take them the same way as well. Periodic readings of this book got me from my first MI through 15 years of middle age, an angioplasty, and my recent triple bypass. The physical predisposition to coronary problems was genetic. My successful adjustment to the stress factors was all from the book, discovered as part of my original coronary rehabilitation in 1985. Read this book. Lead a better life. Buy copies for friends! Enjoy!