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Your Health This (Emotional) Week
In this week’s special issue of Your Health, we explore the possibility that we really might be able to kill people with our brains.
If you sense that you are being treated unfairly at work, it might be time to leave. Just cause, well, it’s either that or dropping dead from a heart attack.
Ditto for high levels of anxiety. Ari Fleischer HAD to resign, see. For his HEALTH.
Treating older people for depression may actually help them live longer, according to a study of 1,200 depressed seniors in Philadelphia. Those receiving treatment for major depression were 45% less likely to die in the 4–5 years of follow up.
Researchers are setting up a nationwide database to track the so-called “broken-heart syndrome” or Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, a rare and lethal heart condition that attacks women after an emotional event. No really.
Feeling good about your body means feeling good about yourself, according to the author of a study on North Carolina teenagers. Or does feeling good about yourself mean feeling good about your body. Duh duh duhhhh.
Cancer experts are starting to feel bad about the drop in mammogram rates in the U.S. Only 66% of women over 40 have had a mammogram in the past two years. In 2000, that figure was 70%. Seeing as how regular mammograms are the best way to detect cancer early, which is the best way to survive said cancer, I think we should all be feeling a little ashamed.
Ecotherapy – better known as taking a walk in the woods or countryside – may be an effective alternative to chemical antidepressants in the fight against depression, according to a U.K. mental health charity which has no immediately obvious ties to either Tom Cruise or the Church of Scientology. So snap out of it and get some fresh air, eh chap?
Disclaimer: Some attentive readers may have noticed that none of the above news snippets contained any actual information about how to kill other people with their brains. We suggest you start slow, by first learning how to not kill your own self using your own brain. Readers who do have the ability to kill other people with their brains are politely requested to return to their home planet whenever is convenient.
