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...sensible practice of yoga does more than slap a Happy Face on your cerebrum. It can also massage the lymph system, says Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. Lymph is the body's dirty dishwater; a network of lymphatic vessels and storage sacs crisscross over the entire body, in parallel with the blood supply, carrying a fluid composed of infection-fighting white blood cells and the waste products of cellular activity. Exercise in general activates the flow of lymph through the body, speeding up the filtering process; but yoga in particular promotes...
...come with age. Physical changes in the brain caused by illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease and vascular (i.e., stroke-related) insufficiency, alcohol and drug abuse, and some antihypertensive medications also predispose the elderly to depression. Studies conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health and the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester division, confirm that medical illnesses, such as heart disease, stroke and cancer, are major correlatives of depression in older people...
...Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville notified Kugel, Starr professor of classical, modern Jewish and Hebrew literature, several weeks ago that he was the recipient of the 2001Grawemeyer Award in Religion, a $200,000 prize...
...lifesaving role, particularly as we age. In study after study, researchers have found that people who have strong social relationships live longer--and happier--lives. In a recent study of 2,800 people 65 and older in New Haven, Conn., for example, Carlos Mendes de Leon, at the Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, found that those who had more friends were less likely to become disabled and more likely to recover if they did suffer a period of disability. In an earlier study of 11,000 people 65 and older, Teresa Seeman, now at the UCLA...
...days later, I happened to meet Frederick Buechner. Buechner, now 74 years old, is one of the few Presbyterian ministers in the world who has a cult following. He is an author of luminous novels, memoirs, sermons. I have long been a member of the Buechner cult. When we met at last, I asked him about a sermon that had changed his life - something he had heard years ago in a church in New York City. Buechner had simply wandered in off the street. The minister, George Buttrick, had spoken of how divinity enters the heart, "amid tears, confession...