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...Naps for Healthy Hearts I was interested to see that a study found that people who take 30-minute naps three times a week are 37% less likely to die from heart disease [Dec. 3]. I would question whether it's solely because blood pressure drops just before you fall asleep. People who work at high-stress jobs are probably too wound up to take a half-hour nap, which says volumes about stress-related hormone levels. It's probably not worth forcing yourself to take a nap to ward off heart disease. A better solution might be to change...
...intended target or behaved nicely was beside the point. Evel, who changed the spelling of his adopted name (he was born Robert) to clarify that he was not that bad a guy, uplifted a generation dazed by Vietnam and Watergate. America, he said, "needed somebody who would spill blood and break bones ... who wasn't phony." He made it a point to be that person. Knievel, who had incurable lung disease, died at 69 after years of ill health...
...Soviet helicopters from the skies. Describing it as a "total high," he says he knew then it was only a matter of time before the Russians would leave. "Who would have thought the 'evil empire' would collapse and, most astonishingly, that it would collapse without a single drop of blood from an American soldier?" He also has no remorse over his devotion to the Afghan guerrillas, many of whom later became Islamic warriors and formed the Taliban. "We were fighting the evil empire. It would have been like not supplying the Soviets against Hitler in World War II," he says...
...habits over an eight-year period and found that those who slept six to eight hours nightly at the beginning of the study but decreased the amount of rest they got by the end of it increased their risk of dying from heart disease 110%. "When you sleep, your blood pressure drops, your heart rate drops, and the heart doesn't have to work as much," explains Dr. Lawrence Epstein, medical director of the Sleep Health Centers in Boston. Makes sense; still, the more than doubling of the risk surprised both Epstein and the authors of the paper...
...Harvard Medical School (HMS) study found that blood stem cells patrol the body’s organs, and, if exposed to infectious agents, have the capacity to participate in immune response...