Stress for success: Stress plays role in weight gain

Stress for success: Stress plays role in weight gain
Unless you’ve ignored all news over recent decades, you know that obesity either causes or worsens six of the seven most common chronic diseases that…
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Best role for friend is to lend comforting ear

Best role for friend is to lend comforting ear
Question: My friend and his wife are expecting … and separating. The cause of the separation seems to be (significant) “stress of pregnancy” issues I believe are temporary. But, I think their behavior now, and their hurt, may prevent them from reconciling after the kid is born.
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Milton Friedman explains role of gold in Great Depression.

Milton Friedman explains what happened during the great depression and what the role of the federal reserve is during economic ups and downs. This is from a 10 hour documentary series which can be viewed online at: www.ideachannel.tv

Stress Peptide and Receptor May Have Role in Diabetes

Stress Peptide and Receptor May Have Role in Diabetes
The neuropeptide corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) makes cameo appearances throughout the body, but its leading role is as the opening act in the stress response, jump-starting the process along the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have found that CRF also plays a [...]

Stress as Related to Diabetes and Hypertension. the Role of Antioxidants

CHAPTER ONE1.0 INTRODUCTIONLife styles of people have dramatically changed over the years and this has invariably increased the risk of diabetes and hypertension.
1.1 GENERAL PERSPECTIVEThe cause of most disease cannot be enumerated, but factors that enhance the effect of the disease can be typically analyzed. People from different backgrounds have different life styles that can [...]