We've all heard anecdotal stories of moments of great stress being suddenly interrupted by a heart attack. In fact, it's commonly understood that significant levels of stress can trigger heart attacks. However, until now, there hasn't actually been a lot of research backing up this logical connection. But thanks to research recently presented at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session, we now have a better understanding of how stress and cardiovascular events are linked. And it could help you avoid suffering from this fate. 

You probably know by now that drinking green tea is good for you. The Japanese are some of the longest-living people on the planet, and 80% of them drink green tea every single day. Green tea has been shown to help prevent cancer and cardiovascular disease. This is largely thanks to its polyphenols and antioxidants, which reduce inflammation and oxidation. But new research indicates that cancer and cardiovascular disease aren't the only causes of death that you can be less worried about if you drink green tea regularly. There's another silent killer that green tea may be protecting you from — one you probably haven't ever thought about before. 

One of the very real problems that oncologists have when treating patients with chemotherapy is something called multi-drug resistance. That means that, even though at first the cancer cells are killed by the drugs, after a while they become immune to them. This happens in many cancers. And it's due to several different proteins that cancers make that leap to multi-drug resistance. Now a new study is showing that at least in breast cancers there might be a very simple and safe way to stop cancers from making these proteins. If true, this would lead to much better results especially in patients with metastatic cancers.