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State the physiological effects of hunger on the heart.

      

State the physiological effects of hunger on the heart.

  

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- A lifestyle of constant anger is harmful to your heart. Anger emotion often activates the "fight or flight response.” When this happens, stress hormones, majorly adrenaline and cortisol, speed up your heart rate and breathing and give you get sudden high levels of energy. Your blood pressure also rises as your blood vessels constrict.
-While this stress response prepares you for emergencies, it might cause harm if activated repeatedly. It causes wear and tear on the heart and cardiovascular system." Frequent anger may speed up the process of atherosclerosis, in which fatty plaques build up in arteries. The heart pumps harder, blood vessels constrict, blood pressure surges, and there are higher levels of glucose in the blood and more fat globules in the blood vessels. Scientists believe this can cause damage to artery walls leading to various cardiovascular diseases.
- A study from Harvard School of Public Health studied hostility in men and found that those with higher rates of hostility not only had poorer pulmonary functioning (breathing problems) but experienced higher rates of decline in pulmonary functioning as they aged.

Titany answered the question on July 28, 2021 at 05:51


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