It is the Festival of love and gifts. A nurse, a psychologist and Professor Bernd Reuschenbach see Christmas more as a health risk.

Martina Scherf

Christmas is the celebration of love, says the Church. Christmas is for Giving, says the advertising. Christmas is attacks the time of the heart, says Bernd Reuschenbach. The psychologist sits in his office at the Catholic Foundation University of Munich-Haidhausen, and is preparing his rather light-hearted lecture on the Christmas-effect in the medicine. Is there a notice to report value.

“Christmas goose, cookies, Stress, high expectations and a depth of not disappointments, all of that is good for the heart,” says the Professor, 49, and works …