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Stress Hurts Our Minds and Our Bodies
Stress isn’t just “in our heads.” It can impact our physical well-being too. According to psychological scientist Elissa Epel of the University of California, San Francisco, chronic stress can affect what we eat, how our
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Can you catch stress?
AOL UK: Are you surrounded by stressed-out colleagues complaining about their jobs, or friends whining about their boyfriends? Then watch out, because their stress and anxiety is as contagious as a common cold. That’s the
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Mother’s Love May Keep the Doctor Away
Fox News: An extra dose of motherly nurturing insulates children from lifelong health problems associated with poverty, a new study says. The study found that people whose parents did not finish high school were 1.4
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Study calls parental care key factor in child’s health
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: A new study has found that children raised in poverty were less likely to develop certain chronic diseases in adulthood if they had loving, attentive mothers from a young age. Disadvantaged children grow
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Don’t let others stress you out
CNN: When I tell Pam, my stressed-out lawyer friend, that stress is contagious, she seems unimpressed. “I have always kind of suspected that,” she says, “ever since in ‘Ghostbusters II,’ when the guys discover that
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PTSD-linked gene variations found in study of NIU undergrads on campus during mass shootings
The Washington Post: A study of college students’ reactions to shootings on their Illinois campus gives fresh insight into how genes may influence the psychological impact of traumatic events. The researchers found that symptoms similar
