Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BLURB] "No Kids! No Men! No Makeup! No Stress! No Cooking...
...principal trouble spots are the shock-absorbing disks between the vertebrae and the facet joints, at the back of each vertebrae, that act as brakes to rotation. Each disk is a round ligament, made up of an annulus, which is like a multilayered collagen basket that absorbs rotational stress, and a lighter-density liquid nucleus that absorbs compression. The layers of the annulus are woven for maximum absorption. But it doesn't take much to tear this basket. "You can tear the annulus with no more than 3[degrees] of sudden loaded rotation," Watkins says. "If the disk ruptures into...
BRAIN STRAIN Feel like you can't think straight when you're stressed out? You're probably right. Researchers who injected volunteers with cortisol--a hormone secreted during stress--report that those who received the highest doses for the longest period (four days) had the most trouble recalling a story they had just been told. There is a bright spot: a week after the hormone injections stopped, memory was completely restored...
...month, zip from the station to the lab in a CarLink Honda. They finish office tasks on the train and keep more sensible hours in order to get the Honda back to the BART station in time for a nighttime sharer. "This has eliminated a lot of the stress and anxiety of commuting," Glassley says...
...season with a lot of fairly serious injuries, bad flukish ankle turns, stress fractures and stuff like that," said Schotte, who also captained the cross country team...