[HoosierFather]

I agree with you that stress can be correlated with a myriad of diseases (e.g. hypertension). However, the uniformed posting to this topic seem to think that Molly Ivin's aggressive liberal tendencies or her lack of faith and spirituality (typical of liberals) caused her cancer and her progression over 6 years to the metastatic setting. The reasons for her disease are related to biology rather than to spirituality or politics....

[veronica]

The whole issue of how thoughts and emotions affect health is interesting. I am sure someone out there has studies of disease rates vis a vis people with a belief in God and those without.