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According to a new study by British researchers, saying the F word or any other commonly used expletive can work to reduce physical pain - and it seems that people may use curse words by instinct. Indeed, as any owner of a banged shin, whacked funny bone or stubbed toe knows, dancing the agony jig - and shouting its profane theme tune - are about as automatic as the response to a doctor's reflex hammer. (See 20 ways to get healthy and stay that...
...figure out why, psychologists at Britain's Keele University recruited 64 college students and asked them to stick their hands in a bucket of ice water and endure the pain for several minutes. One group was allowed to repeat a curse word of their choice continuously while their hands were in the water; another group was asked to repeat a non-expletive control word, such as that which might be used to describe a table. The result was that swearing not only allowed students to withstand the discomfort longer, but also reduced their perception of pain intensity. Curse words...
...have since experimented with my own aches and pains. We already had some tumeric in the kitchen. It's pretty good on pizza and has a mustard-curry taste. Seems to help with pain. People I know, it turns out, are already taking the stuff. Same proud, confident, happy reaction to my using it as Jerry's. And it's all over the Internet. It's fun being on this sort of team for a change. Devotees of the magic spice are a bit like those of the holy herb - a cozy klatch of believers with a strong...
...suburb of one of the world's most isolated cities, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd wants you to know that he feels your pain - to a point. A bedroom community of Perth, Western Australia, Cockburn until recently shared in the buoyant growth rates that turned this part of the southern continent into a giant construction zone. No more. As Australia's great mining boom deflated due to slackening demand from China and the global recession, the region around Cockburn saw unemployment go from 2.1% last October to 7.2% in April. Roughly a year and a half after his victory over...
...More people will be suffering.' DR. SEAN MACKEY, chief of pain management at the Stanford University School of Medicine, saying the agency's recommendation would burden physicians and patients and lead to higher health-care costs...