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This morning on my drive into work I heard a report on how a study was done to show that if you have a good marriage your heart is healthier and if you have a bad marriage you are 34% more likely to have heart problems.

"Those in a negative relationship were 34% more likely to have a coronary event in the 12 years of follow-up," says Roberto De Vogli, PhD, MPH, a researcher for the study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

I'm sure it's all stress related and the study could be done if you have a child who is sick or something like that, too.

But, I was thinking about it and I think it's about time someone began medically showing the connections between a "valentine" heart and your "physical" heart.

People may mentally "replay" the negative interactions, De Vogli and other researchers suspect. "It can activate emotional responses, including depression or hostility," he says, in turn boosting heart disease risk.

See to me that thought is intuitive. I am perfectly aware that a lot of things are mind over matter. You can make yourself feel one way or another in a lot of cases. If you consistently dwell on something negative and play it over and over again in your head it will naturally take a physical toll on your body in some form or another.

Interesting.

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