It can be argued that the most powerful ingredient for optimum health is the absence of emotional stress. Solomon said in Proverbs 17:22:
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
It is not uncommon to find people who are eating a nutritious diet, taking good nutritional supplements, exercising . . . and yet who are experiencing poor health. Unresolved emotional stress is often the “missing ingredient.”
STRESS STUDIES
The statistics on emotional stress and health are pretty incredible. The Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans found that in 500 consecutive cases of gastro-intestinal illness, 74% were caused by emotional stress. The Yale University Out Patient Medical Dept. found 76% of its cases were related to emotionally induced illness. In his best-selling book, How to Live 365 Days a Year, John Schindler, M.D. said that, “Three out of every four hospital beds are occupied by people with emotionally induced illness,” leading him to conclude that, “Emotional stress is today our Number One cause of ill-health.”
Let me hasten to add that when I talk about an illness being “emotionally induced,” I’m not saying the symptoms are imaginary. The symptoms are very real and very physical. What we’re talking about is the way emotional stress affects the physical body to produce those physical symptoms.
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