访谈录 Interview 2007-02-18&20, 给心灵做个SPA

We have been focusing all week/ on how to maintain a healthy heart and this morning we are talking about stress. Oh yeah, that bad word. There has been a lot of research connected with stress and heart disease, so it makes sense to do something about the stress in your life. And here with all the answers (oh,I wish) is Dr. Emily Senay.

Oh, boy. OK, give us the bad news first, what's correlation¹ between stress and heart disease?

Well, you know you would think there was a definitive² study that proved beyond the shadow of the doubt that stress either causes heart disease or increases one's risk or makes it worse. That study actually has not been done. One has been done as you just pointed³ out is the accumulation act. The fact that stress plays an incredibly important role in our overall …. In fact we will be foolish to ignore stress as a risk factor for heart disease. Some physician should be considered on the same level as things like cholesterol⁴ or high blood pressure.

Well, so we….

Real risk factor

Yeah, absolutely not proving yet. The studies aren't there yet, but in time we will have that answer.

But what do we know about stress and how it affects our bodies for sure.

Sure, well we do know that people who are on mountain site their body stress hormones⁵, and those stress hormones have a variety of effects on our bodies. They can narrow arteries⁶ including our heart arteries, increase heart rate, raise our blood pressure. Of course, when we are under stress, what do we do, we don't eat right, we don't exercise, we / drink, some of us need medicine, some of us drink can.

And we do think, we do think that is bad for us.

That is right. Smoke?

Our part of what we do to relieve stress.

All right, Are there signs that we are under stress?

Well, you know, what I find, very often is people don't even realize that they had these issues or problems until they can see it in retrospect⁷. So people who feel like they can get through the day, they can get the tasks, some that they need to get done, they feel overwhelmed, they have trouble with their memory. They feel tense or angry irritable⁸ all the time. Some people even have physical symptoms, headaches, muscle strains, stomachaches. All these can be signs of stress. But again, when we are in that moment, we have tunnel-vision and we don't even realize that we are experiencing it until we have gotten away from it, and said Oh, yeah I was under stress.

Everybody experiences a lot of stress. Now what can we do about it?

Well, the American Heart Association has tips to take a few moments during the day to be quiet and get away from our stress, plan ahead. If you know you are going into a stressful event or situation, think about how you are gonna handle with it, ways that you are going to cope with those things when they happen. Exercise of course, overpromising and overdoing⁹.

Um. Do you have any familiar, you already with that?

Yeah, overscheduling consulting.

Well, those are all things you can do to, sort of, try to get a handle on the stress in your life.

OK, so Doctor Emily Senay, thank you so much. I hope you have a nice and relaxing weekend.

I'm gonna try..

during this weekend.

Yes.

Reference:

tunnel vision
n.
Vision in which the visual field is severely¹⁰ constricted¹¹, as from within a tunnel looking out.
An extremely narrow point of view; narrow-mindedness

1 correlation   

n.相互关系，相关，关连

参考例句：

• The second group of measurements had a high correlation with the first.第二组测量数据与第一组高度相关。
• A high correlation exists in America between education and economic position.教育和经济地位在美国有极密切的关系。

2 definitive   

adj.确切的，权威性的；最后的，决定性的

参考例句：

• This book is the definitive guide to world cuisine.这本书是世界美食的权威指南。
• No one has come up with a definitive answer as to why this should be so.至于为什么该这样，还没有人给出明确的答复。

3 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

4 cholesterol   

n.（U）胆固醇

参考例句：

• There is cholesterol in the cell of body.人体细胞里有胆固醇。
• They are determining the serum-protein and cholesterol levels.他们正在测定血清蛋白和胆固醇的浓度。

5 hormones   

n. 荷尔蒙，激素 名词hormone的复数形式

参考例句：

• This hormone interacts closely with other hormones in the body. 这种荷尔蒙与体內其他荷尔蒙紧密地相互作用。
• The adrenals produce a large per cent of a man's sex hormones. 肾上腺分泌人体的大部分性激素。

6 arteries   

n.动脉( artery的名词复数 )；干线，要道

参考例句：

• Even grafting new blood vessels in place of the diseased coronary arteries has been tried. 甚至移植新血管代替不健康的冠状动脉的方法都已经试过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• This is the place where the three main arteries of West London traffic met. 这就是伦敦西部三条主要交通干线的交汇处。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 retrospect   

n.回顾，追溯；v.回顾，回想，追溯

参考例句：

• One's school life seems happier in retrospect than in reality.学校生活回忆起来显得比实际上要快乐。
• In retrospect,it's easy to see why we were wrong.回顾过去就很容易明白我们的错处了。

8 irritable   

adj.急躁的；过敏的；易怒的

参考例句：

• He gets irritable when he's got toothache.他牙一疼就很容易发脾气。
• Our teacher is an irritable old lady.She gets angry easily.我们的老师是位脾气急躁的老太太。她很容易生气。

9 overdoing   

v.做得过分( overdo的现在分词 )；太夸张；把…煮得太久；（工作等）过度

参考例句：

• He's been overdoing things recently. 近来他做事过分努力。 来自辞典例句
• You think I've been overdoing it with the work thing? 你认为我对工作的关注太过分了吗？ 来自电影对白

10 severely   

adv.严格地；严厉地；非常恶劣地

参考例句：

• He was severely criticized and removed from his post.他受到了严厉的批评并且被撤了职。
• He is severely put down for his careless work.他因工作上的粗心大意而受到了严厉的批评。

11 constricted   

adj.抑制的，约束的

参考例句：

• Her throat constricted and she swallowed hard. 她喉咙发紧，使劲地咽了一下唾沫。
• The tight collar constricted his neck. 紧领子勒着他的脖子。