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...Hundreds of others are jammed into tents just meters from the scene of the blaze. Flora Naig and her five-month-old daughter are living with 40 relatives and former neighbors in a five-meter?by?five-meter tent, and she hopes to sell some old clothes to buy milk for her infant. Naig has survived two previous fires in the past two years, both of which destroyed her residence. "We keep on being tossed around," she says, "from one corner to another...
...Human nursing, by contrast, requires flesh-on-flesh cuddling. What's more, a mother's metabolism ensures that this contact occurs more or less all day long. Anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, professor emeritus at the University of California at Davis, points out that human beings produce very dilute breast milk, which necessitates frequent nursing sessions and therefore provides loads of opportunities for mother and child to touch...
Endocrinologists have known for years that oxytocin, released by the pituitary gland, ovaries and testes, helps trigger childbirth contractions, milk production during nursing and the pelvic shudders women experience during orgasm (and possibly the contractions during male orgasm as well). The hormone is believed to play a vital role in mother-child bonding and may do the same for new fathers: oxytocin surges when a new dad holds his bundle of joy. Some researchers also think of oxytocin as a cuddle chemical. Preliminary studies by psychiatrist Kathleen Light at the University of North Carolina have found that oxytocin levels rise...
...flavonoids, which can raise levels of good cholesterol, and antioxidants, which limit cell damage. Heating chocolate seems to release antioxidants, so go for the hot cocoa. Not all chocolate is created equal, however. Dark chocolate is more potent than its paler cousin in raising antioxidant levels, possibly because the milk in milk chocolate binds to antioxidants. In addition, German research comparing dark and white chocolate found that the dark stuff can lower blood pressure...
VITAMIN B: Finnish researchers concluded that B12 (found in meat, milk and fortified cereal) may beat the blues. Depressed patients with the highest levels of vitamin B12 in their blood responded best to treatment...