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Stress and Suicide in Hard Times: How People Really React

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:10:09 GMT

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By Benjamin Radford, LiveScience's Bad Science Columnist

Loren Coleman, an expert on suicides and author of "The Copycat Effect," notes that suicides actually decrease during times of social and economic stress: "Historical studies conducted by sociologist Steven Stack and others have discovered a noticeable dip in suicides and related violent events when there is society-wide anguish, for example, in times of massive immediate grieving in periods of wars and economic depressions."

Though hard times may not drive you to suicide, the stress they create can be dangerous.

The role of stress in health problems, from high blood pressure and heart disease, is well established. Then there are the secondary effects of stress that trigger unhealthy behaviors such as smoking.

In times of stress, people tend to seek comfort — and comfort foods. People who are worried about their retirement and paying the bills are even more likely to want hamburgers and a night of relaxing on the couch

The Law of the Garbage Truck...

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:45:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life’s too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so..... ‘Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don‘t.’
The entire inspirational page is fabulous on the site...

Clip Source: www.amazingposts.com

I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport.

We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us.My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches!

The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us.
My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy.

And I mean, he was really friendly.So I asked, ‘Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!’

This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, ‘The Law of the Garbage Truck.’

He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment.

garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they’ll dump it on you. Don’t take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don’t take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.

Why Is It So Hard to Be Yourself?

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:34:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Don't give away your power...true

Clip Source: www.pickthebrain.com

July 10th, 2008 by Michael Miles

Don’t give away your power

It is impossible to really be yourself when you are worried about how other people perceive you. We all care (at least a little bit) what other people think – we have been raised to believe that the approval of others is important. And in some ways it is – other people do have power over us. But the truth is that it doesn’t matter as much as you think; usually it doesn’t matter at all. Sometimes you’ll be flavor of the month; other times you might be public enemy number one. But you cannot control what other people think of you, so why even try?

Let them think what they will. To give the opinions and thoughts of others so much importance is to make your own life a misery. When you stop giving your power away to other people like this, your life will be so much lighter and easier. To genuinely not care what others think is an amazing and enlightening experience. Try it.

Live with integrity

Healthy people are happy but happy people are even healthier

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:53:56 GMT

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Clip Source: in.news.yahoo.com

Washington, Aug 30 (ANI): While it is said that healthy people are happy, a new study suggests that people who're joyful and satisfied with their lives are healthier.

Moreover, the benefit comes with a quick turnaround time, with greater happiness possibly boosting health in as little as three years.

"Everything else being equal, if you are happy and satisfied with your life now, you are more likely to be healthy in the future. Importantly, our results are independent of several factors that impact on health, such as smoking, physical activity, alcohol consumption and age," said lead author Mohammad Siahpush, Ph.D.

The researchers looked at data from two waves of an Australian survey conducted in 2001 and 2004. Nearly 10,000 adults responded to items about health indicators including the presence of long-term, limiting health conditions and physical health.

They used the question, "During the past four weeks, have you been a happy person?" to assess happiness.

Jay Leno Quotations...

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:56:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: He makes you to laugh, simultaneously making you to think...

Clip Source: www.quotationspage.com

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution.

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good…Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

US comedian & television host

Weather alerts boosts lung health..

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:02:42 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

By Jane Elliott
Health reporter, BBC News

A scheme warning people with a lung condition about weather which could have an effect on them has cut hospital admissions for the problem by a fifth.

The Met Office alerts tell people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) when cold weather is due.

More than 8,000 patients from 189 GP practices across the UK are signed up to the scheme.

The British Lung Foundation says users can plan to avoid being out during cold snaps which could harm their health.

COPD is a progressive lung disease that affects over 900,000 people in the UK, causing acute breathlessness meaning everyday life can be very difficult.

Cold air can worsen symptoms by making airways narrower, making it even harder to breathe. Chest infections are also more common in winter.

Deaths due to respiratory disease, like COPD, increase 12 days after a fall in temperature, which causes an increase in colds and breathing problems.

Hooked to smoking at the first puff? Ur genes my dear Watson,ur genes!!!

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:14:28 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Puffing on a first cigarette is a rite of passage for many teenagers, but whether it is enjoyable may be partly down to genetics, researchers suggest.

University of Michigan scientists have identified a gene variant found more often in people who said their first cigarette produced a "buzz".

These people were much more likely to go on to become regular smokers, the journal Addiction reports.

The researchers say the finding may help development of anti-smoking drugs.

A person's decision to smoke for the first time, or carry on smoking, is not thought to be governed solely by his or her genes, but a mixture of genes, environmental factors and social pressures.

It appears that for people who have a certain genetic make-up, the initial physical reaction to smoking can play a significant role in determining what happens next

Genetic data was obtained from 435 volunteers, some of whom were regular smokers, and some who had tried cigarettes but were not currently smokers.

Handsets, laptops taken to the grave

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:53:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: oh huh...

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

More people than ever are asking to be buried or cremated with their mobile phones when they die, say researchers.

The trend, which began in South Africa, has now spread to a number of countries, including Ireland, Australia, Ghana, and the US.

Martin Raymond, director of international trend-spotting think-tank, The Future Laboratory said that this had started off "in the realm of the urban myth", but was fast becoming fact.

He explained that the first cases of people asking to be buried with their phone originated in Cape Town, where some people's belief in witchcraft meant they feared that "they could fall under a spell, be put to sleep and actually be buried.

"In fact, they were asking for the phones to be put into the coffins with them in case they woke up."

"We came across one guy who asked to be buried with his mobile phone and his Blackberry, and also with his laptop."

Some funeral parlours will now arrange for the phone put into the box with the ashes following the cremation.

Writing is a healing process & a special blessing from God!

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:59:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: for the rest of the article, a visit to the site is advised.
by Lalitha V Raman.

Clip Source: www.writinghood.com

Writing is a healing process; long buried experiences, witnessed scenes, controlled emotions, contained fury, unbelievable coincidences, the mysteries and the myths of life, the abundant happiness, admiration for the people and for the places, the pure joy of the life and living…

Writing is a gift from the God: some people are gifted with speech and some are gifted with making handicrafts. Some others are gifted with cooking, gardening and disciplined home making tasks. Some people are gifted with multi-tasking wonderfully well and some others are gifted with abundance of everything. The special people in the world are gifted with writing!

Writing displays the love and the emotions from your heart. It also displays your long accumulated experiences, the witnessed details, the courage against the fear and the prejudices, the “no matter what” persistent attitudes and the “one step at a time” reasoning…the writing is the window to your heart!

Diabetes forcing many amputations...

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:26:09 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Around 100 people a week in the UK have a limb amputated as a result of diabetes, a charity has claimed.

Diabetes UK highlighted the statistic to raise awareness of the "life-shattering" impact of the illness.

People with diabetes are 15 times more likely to need a lower limb amputation than people without the condition.

Diabetes, which is on the increase, can also cause heart attacks, strokes, blindness and kidney failure.

This situation is shocking given that most amputations can be prevented with better awareness and management of the condition

Douglas Smallwood
Diabetes UK

People with diabetes are far more likely to develop foot problems, including ulcers, which can get infected and can even lead to gangrene.

More than one in 10 foot ulcers results in an amputation.

Figures suggest that about seven out of 10 people having an amputation will die within five years.

Mental risk of Facebook teens...

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:54:04 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Children growing up alongside the rise of social networking websites may have a "potentially dangerous" view of the world, says a leading psychiatrist.

Dr Himanshu Tyagi said sites such as Facebook and MySpace may be harmful.

It may be possible that young people who have no experience of a world without online societies put less value on their real world identities

Dr Tyagi said that people born after 1990 did not know a world without the widespread use of the internet.

He warned that the current crop of psychiatrists were perhaps not fully prepared to help young people with internet-related problems.

While social networking sites offered great benefits, he said, there were potential pitfalls.

Sex diseases 'double in over-45s'

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:21:02 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Sexually transmitted infections have doubled in under a decade in people over 45 and are now rising faster than in the young, research suggests.

The Health Protection Agency (HPA) study said internet dating and erectile dysfunction drugs were partly to blame.

Men were most likely to be affected, with increases in herpes, syphilis, gonorrhoea and genital warts.

The number of sexually transmitted infections is rising in both young and old, despite sexual health campaigns urging people to avoid unsafe sex.

In total, 4,445 infections were detected in older people, with genital warts accounting for almost half of these diagnoses.

Within the over-45 age group, men and people aged 55 to 59 were most likely to have a sexually transmitted infection (STI).

The overall rate of infections more than doubled over the eight-year period from 16.7 per 100,000 population to 36.3 per 100,0000.

This meant a significantly higher increase for older people compared with younger patients.

Why don't some people change, for a change?

Fri, 02 May 2008 11:24:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Isn't his first priority to take care of his own country and his own people, rather than trying to 'save the world' all the time?
Hats off to the american people for putting up with the series of such politican jokers...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush called for $770 million in new U.S. food aid donations and other measures on Thursday as Washington seeks to stave off a food crisis threatening to envelop the developing world.

Bush, expressing concern as skyrocketing world food prices intensify unrest in poor countries from Haiti to Burkina Faso, promised the United States would take a lead in fighting the hunger now gripping a greater swath of the developing world

Administration officials said the $770 million would include $395 million in emergency food aid, $225 million for food vouchers, seeds, or aid purchases in the developing world, and $150 million for development work aimed at food security.

That will help "improve the ability of the developing world to feed itself," said Stephen McMillin, a top budget official.

because it is time to celebrate ur life!

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:40:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Mm...true!

Clip Source: www.authspot.com

When you go to sleep the moment your head hit your pillows,
Know that you are being blessed by the God!
When you are asked for forgiveness by someone,
Understand that you are being honored by the angels!

When you get up late in the morning and curse yourself,
Remember that there are people who have never woken up that morning!

When you squabble with your wife, do make up with her,
People die more out of loneliness than out of poverty in the world!
When you feel hurt, upset with and are irritated by mean people,
Just throw them out of your life! You deserve better friends!

When the warm fire glows in your home in the rain and in the snow
When your home feels cool and nice in the worst of the summer days
When there is someone waiting for you to get home every single night
With water and food kept ready on the table,
Realize that it is time to celebrate your life as you had never celebrated before

Random health facts you never knew...

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:09:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: may be, you knew some of them...

Clip Source: www.healthranker.com

Motorists who talk on cell phones are more impaired than drunk drivers with blood-alcohol levels exceeding .08!

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour

The word ‘gymnasium’ comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means ‘to exercise naked.’

There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.

Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television

It is possible to go blind from smoking too heavily

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do

You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening

During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants.

The average American eats at McDonalds more than 1,800 times in their life

There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.

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