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Watching football on TV can be unhealthy if there's too much stress, food and booze, says UAB nurse

by Traci Bratton

September 10, 2014
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"The body doesn't distinguish between 'bad' stress from life or work and 'good' stress caused by game-day excitement," said Jody Gilchrist, a nurse practitioner at the UAB Heart and Vascular Clinic at The Kirklin Clinic at Acton Road, in a UAB news release on Friday. "It impacts your health either way."

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