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Harun Yahya

Herbert Benson, who conducted the research, linked this to the way
religions encourage "forgiveness," and went on to say:
There's a physiology of forgiveness… When you do not forgive, it will
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According to an article titled, "Anger Is Hostile to Your Heart,"
published in the Harvard Gazette, anger is extremely harmful to the
heart. Ichiro Kawachi, an assistant professor of medicine, and his team
scientifically demonstrated this with various tests and measurements.
As a result of their research, they established that grumpy old men had
three times the risk of heart disease than their more tempered peers.
"The tripling of risk," Kawachi says, "involves high levels of anger,
explosive anger that includes smashing things and wanting to hurt
someone in a fight." 78
Researchers believe that release of stress hormones, increased oxy-
gen demand by the heart's muscle cells, and added stickiness of blood
platelets, which leads to clots explain how anger increases the chance
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of a heart attack. Furthermore, at times of anger, the pulse rises above
its normal level, and leads to increased blood pressure in the arteries,
and thus to a greater risk of heart attack.

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