Word: stress
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...into one of the small studies supported by foreign aid groups, there is no guarantee of receiving proper follow-up care. "We have heard of places in China where the drugs are delivered but there is no training of the doctors in how to use them," says Ho. "We stress to them that drug treatment for AIDS is not like food relief, where the food is just dropped...
...funny line, but the comedian may have had it backward. Short-term stresses like speaking in public, it turns out, boost your immune system in ways that tend to keep you out of the coffin, not put you in it. That's one of the findings that emerged from a study of 30 years of stress research published last week in Psychological Bulletin, a journal of the American Psychological Association. In a meta-analysis of more than 300 studies involving some 19,000 subjects, psychologists Gregory Miller at the University of British Columbia and Suzanne Segerstrom at the University...
What they discovered is that modern stresses prompt complex reactions beyond the simple fight-or-flight response--the primordial motivator that sends your heart racing and pumps up your blood pressure. In particular, stress triggers a variety of changes in the immune system--some beneficial, some decidedly less so--depending on how long the stress lasts and whether there is an end in sight. To help make sense of it all, Miller and Segerstrom divided the modern universe of stressful situations into several major categories...
...people subjected to such stresses actually get sick? There have been surprisingly few studies to test that question, but research on long-term hardship at work finds that the stresses are associated with an increase in heart disease. Other studies, conducted by Sheldon Cohen, a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, found that people suffering chronic stress on the job or in relationships are at least twice as likely to get sick from a cold or flu. The more stress people endure, Cohen concluded, the better their chances of falling...
...about how the Knicks passed up native St. John’s product Ron Artest for Frenchman Frederic Weis, who not only never made it to American shores but proceeded to be dunked over by Vince Carter in the Olympics. I’m not sure if I can stress this enough. Frederic Weis is over seven feet all, purportedly. Vince Carter physically dunked over him. Over him. Over him. Over him. But I digress...