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...tend to lick the lips a lot more. It's the saliva that causes the drying." So steer clear of flavored and scented lip products, which encourage lip licking. In extreme cases, chapping leaves lips vulnerable to cold sores, which are caused by the herpes virus and triggered by stress, colds or flu. Treat those separately; lysine supplements or a cream with docosanol may give some relief...
...facing one's mortality in an uncertain world isn't enough of an incentive, there are tangible health benefits to reconciling in the boomer years. Forgiving someone who was once important in your life can reduce your level of stress 15% to 20%, according to Frederic Luskin, senior fellow at the Stanford University Center on Conflict and Negotiation and author of Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription For Health and Happiness (HarperSanFrancisco). "Forgiveness is a form of resilience that reduces the wear and tear on the body and can lead to better health and better quality of life," Luskin says...
...much of the brain's activity, the trick is to fine-tune their levels in ways that relieve depression but don't affect other brain functions. Other targets of drug development: the sex hormone testosterone (a transdermal patch proved effective in a recent clinical trial for men); the stress hormone cortisol, which researchers are trying to regulate with the abortion drug RU 486 and compounds called CRF antagonists; the dynorphins (the evil twins of feel-good endorphins); and a chemical called substance P, involved in pain pathways closely related to depression...
...Overcrowding for territorial animals is a bad thing." PHILLIP HODSON, psychotherapist, on a study showing that commuting can cause stress-related illness
Gallen, a religion concentrator who was working on a paper on aesthetics, said the stress of the library can get to be too much. He said he had seen a girl start crying in the library earlier in the evening...