Archive for June, 2010
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AGING: OLD PEOPLE
When is a man old? Van Wyck Brooks, in his World of Washington Irving, says of William Bartram, the eighteenth-century botanist, “Too frail to travel any longer, for he was in his early sixties …” In the First World War I saw thousands of patients, all young men. One day in one of the hospital [...]
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MENTAL HEALTH: RELAX – IT CAN BE GOOD FOR YOU
Relaxation, scientists are finding, does much more than reduce stress. It also can relieve pain and help control sickness. More and more is being learned about how tension – emotional stress – is bad for both your mind and body. Doctors are now prescribing relaxation training as part of the treatment not merely for minor [...]