A new BBC One TV series, Temper your Temper, is now showing daily at 11am. Presented by Saira Khan (the former Apprentice contestant), the show tries to treat the cause and effects of anger. Neuroscientist Dr Alan Watkins uses his techniques to try to help frantic individuals keep their cool.

An article written about the new series on BBC News states that “there are six types of anger: explosive, argumentative, judgmental, helpless, adolescent and nutritional. For each type, the solution begins with the person accepting that they are the problem, not someone else”.

Temper your Temper is showing every weekday until 15 September.

According to an article on BBC News, anger can compromise lung function. Research, led by Dr Rosalind Wright of Harvard Medical School, found those with high levels of hostility had poorer lung function than their happier peers. The US team followed 670 male military veterans and also found that the angriest men suffered a more rapid decline in lung capacity.

The researchers believe that “anger and hostility could be affecting neurological and hormonal processes, which in turn could cause chronic inflammation in some of the body’s systems, such as the lungs”. Dr Wright continued by saying, “it could change the way we think about screening for risk factors and could inform different types of interventions - such as cognitive behavioural therapy”.

Dr John Moore-Gillon, a lung specialist and spokesman for the British Thoracic Society, said, “the research highlights our growing awareness of the close links between the mind and the body, and the years to come may lead to further important insights.”

According to a seperate article published on the same study, getting angry also ages you and leaves you breathless.