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

"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."