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Worry: Something to Worry About

The old adage "There is nothing to fear but fear itself," doesn’t exactly sum up this story in the Washington Post, but it comes close.  Perhaps it’s time for a new adage:"Worry is something to worry about." Marc Siegel, an associate professor of medicine at NYU med school, warns that many of us worry too much about our health. Siegel also thinks we worry badly, because we worry about all the wrong things. Like West Nile Virus. Or SARS, which has yet to kill anyone in the United States. The irony, says Siegel, is that as we have reduced the risk of death from disease, we worry more about death from disease. Want more irony? Siegell tells us that worry about disease can contribute to disease, increasing our risk for conditions including heart disease, cancer, stroke and depression. What’s the answer? Siegel doesn’t say here, but Geezer is betting that he offers some advice in his book. "False Alarm: the truth about the epidemic of fear," from which this is excerpted. Read more from the Post.

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