Economic stress can have negative impact on health.

NBC Nightly News (11/14, story 7, 2:00, Williams) reported, “Even if your financial situation is stable at home, the bad news, the uncertain atmosphere, can affect all of our health and well-being.” NBC (Bazell) added: “Hard work is not dangerous stress, experts say. Loss of work, or the fear of it, so pervasive these days, is the big danger.” According to Dr. Bruce McEwen, of Rockefeller University, “Stress does cause genuine effects on the human body. I think we’re pretty clear about that as far as cardiovascular disease.” In addition, he added, “depression is widely recognized to be result in part from stressful events. I think certainly overeating, insofar as it’s linked to consumption of comfort foods, may actually contribute to the diabetes and obesity epidemic.”

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