How Bad Feelings Can Harm Your Health
Studies show impact of apathy, hopelessness on cardiovascular disease
By Ed Edelson
HealthDay Reporter

THURSDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDay News) — A depressed emotional state — feelings of hopelessness and apathy — could have a direct effect on your physical health, new research indicates.
A study of stroke survivors found a slower rate of recovery among those experiencing apathy, caring little about themselves and the world around them. And a study of healthy middle-aged women found an association between hopelessness and unexpected thickening of the carotid artery, the …

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A laboratory study by University of Maryland researchers suggests that some of the worst fears about a virulent H1N1 pandemic flu season may not be realized this year, but does demonstrate the heightened communicability of the virus.
Using ferrets exposed to three different viruses, the Maryland researchers found no evidence that the H1N1 pandemic variety, responsible for the so-called swine flu, combines in a lab setting with other flu strains to form a more virulent ‘superbug.’ Rather, the pandemic virus prevailed and out-competed the other strains, reproducing …

Passionate engagement in a creative project leads to real health. 
MANHATTAN, Kan., Aug. 26 (UPI) — Employees who are invigorated and dedicated at work carry over their positive work experiences for a happier home life, U.S. researchers say.
Clive Fullagar, a professor of psychology, Satoris Culbertson, assistant professor of psychology, and Maura Mills, a graduate student in psychology — all of Kansas State University in Manhattan — tracked 67 extension agents for two-weeks.
The participants responded to two daily surveys, one at the end of their workday and the other immediately before …

National conference to showcase research and classroom experience during National ADHD Public Awareness Month
A panel of physicians and scientists will report on the benefits of a simple meditation practice for aiding students diagnosed with ADHD during a national medical webinar, which will be hosted by the David Lynch Foundation on Wednesday, September 30, 12 noon (ET).
The webinar, which comes on the final day of National ADHD Public Awareness Month, will report on published research on the effects of the Transcendental Meditation technique for improving academic achievement and executive brain function …

A study that tracked genetic mutations through the human equivalent of about 5,000 years has demonstrated for the first time that oxidative DNA damage is a primary cause of the process of mutation – the fuel for evolution but also a leading cause of aging, cancer and other diseases.
The research, just published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also indicated that natural selection is affecting the parts of the genome that don’t contain genes – supposedly “junk” DNA that increasingly appears to have important roles in life processes …

Believe it or not these 4 factors have a huge impact on whether or not  you will have the most common deadly chronic diseases: Never smoking, having a body mass index lower than 30 (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared), performing 3.5 h/wk or more of physical activity, and adhering to healthy dietary principles (high intake of fruits, vegetables, and whole-grain bread and low meat consumption).  A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine (2009;169(15):1355-1362).  Adhering to 4 simple healthy lifestyle factors can have …

The experience of wellness is a marker of the degree to which one is engaged in their life creatively expressed.  All disease and dysfunction physically begins first as lack of full expression in some arena of life.  It is a backward perception that having energy and passion for life follows having more physical energy and physical health and well-being.  In fact the order is just the opposite, passionate engagement in life and creative projects begets high energy and mental clarity begets good health and long life.
The cells in the human …