Ashley Nichols’s Reviews > American Heart Association Complete Guide to Women's Heart Health: The Go Red for Women Way to Well-Being & Vitality > Status Update

"It's known that chronic stress can result in unhealthy lifestyle habits that increase the risk of heart disease. Smoking, drinking alcohol in excess, eating for comfort, rationalizing couch-potato behavior, and other self-defeating ways of coping don't deal with the source of the problem; they only mask the symptoms."