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TILL DEATH DO US PART It is what every senior couple dreads--one of the two becomes terminally ill, and the other strains under the grim burden of caring for a dying mate. The stress often takes a physical toll, but these caregivers suffer less depression, lose less weight and take better care of themselves after the death of their spouse than someone whose husband or wife dies suddenly, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Why? The foreknowledge of the death allows the caregiver to grieve as well as prepare for the death. Also...
...WEDDED STRESS Marital strife can harm your health, and for years it was thought that men suffered more ill effects because of their heightened physiological response during conflict. Not so, according to recent studies cited by psychologist Scott Stanley, co-author of the newly revised book Fighting for Your Marriage. Women seem to bear the brunt of it, says Stanley, because they tend to feel more responsible for the outcome of the marriage and yet cannot single-handedly effect change...
...controlled studies that have been done offer cause for hope. A 1990 study of patients who had coronary heart disease indicated that a regimen of aerobic exercise and stress reduction, including yoga, combined with a low-fat vegetarian diet, stabilized and in some cases reversed arterial blockage. The author Dr. Dean Ornish is in the midst of a study involving men with prostate cancer. Can diet, yoga and meditation affect the progress of this disease? So far, Ornish will say only that the data are encouraging...
...Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968. Since then, yoga has endured more evolutions of popular consciousness than a morphing movie monster. First it signaled spiritual cleansing and rebirth, a nontoxic way to get high. Then it was seen as a kind of preventive medicine that helped manage and reduce stress. "The third wave was the fitness wave," says Richard Faulds, president of the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts. "And that's about strength and flexibility and endurance...
...daily life, that gym-rat pressure is even more intense: our jobs, our marriages, our lives are at stake. Says McCall: "We know that a high percentage of the maladies that people suffer from have at least some component of stress in them, if they're not overtly caused by stress. Stress causes a rise of blood pressure, the release of catecholamines (neurotransmitters and hormones that regulate many of the body's metabolic processes). We know that when catecholamine levels are high, there tends to be more platelet aggregation, which makes a heart attack more likely." So instead...