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Pessimism Deadly for Heart Patients?
Outlook Affects Survival, Study Shows, So Look on the Bright Side
By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Medical News

March 13, 2008 -- Keeping a positive attitude is good for your health, and if you are a heart patient it just may save your life, new research suggests.

A study of patients with heart disease followed for six to 10 years found that those with pessimistic beliefs about their recovery were twice as likely to die during that timeframe as those who felt more optimistic.

The research was presented this week in Baltimore at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, a group dedicated to the research of the interaction between the mind and body.

"This study is one of the first to examine how a patient's attitude toward their disease affects their health over the long term, and ultimately their survival," says lead researcher John C. Barefoot, PhD.

Mind and Body Connection

Barefoot, Redford B. Williams, MD, and colleagues from Duke University Medical Center conducted psychological assessments on 2,825 patients hospitalized for heart disease.

The patients were asked to describe their expectations about their ability to recover from their illness and regain a normal life.

During six to 10 years of follow-up, 978 of the patients died, with 66% dying of heart disease.

Patient expectations about their disease course were highly related to survival, with patients who had the most pessimistic views dying at twice the rate of those who were most optimistic.

After controlling for factors that could influence survival, including disease severity, functional status, and depression, the death rate among the most pessimistic patients was still 30% higher than the most optimistic, Williams tells WebMD.

"Negative outlook was an independent predictor of poor outcomes," he says. "And there seems to be something protective about having a more optimistic attitude that makes you feel that you are going to be OK."

He says patients with positive expectations may be more likely to make lifestyle changes and follow treatment regimens prescribed by their doctors.

The Impact of Stress

Another possible explanation is that positive thoughts may lessen the damaging effects of stress on the body.

A separate study presented by the Duke researchers at the Baltimore meeting examined this theory.

Researchers conducted personality profiles on 327 healthy people to determine if they were more inclined to exhibit positive or negative emotions. They then conducted tests designed to assess the study participants' physiological responses to stress.

People identified as being more positive were found to have significantly lower increases in blood pressure during stress than people who were negative.

They also had lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol within 30 minutes of waking -- a time in which levels tend to be high.

"It's not just that negative emotions are harmful," lead researcher Beverly H. Brummett, PhD, tells WebMD. "There seems to be something about the experience of having more positive emotions. They seem to act as a buffer against bad health outcomes."

Brummett says interventions like meditation, behavioral therapy, and regular exercise may help people with naturally gloomy dispositions change their outlook.

But cardiologist Donald LaVan, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania, is not so sure.

LaVan, who is a spokesman for the American Heart Association, tells WebMD that very soon after the introduction of heart bypass surgery, cardiologists began to recognize that more optimistic patients fared better in terms of recovery and even survival.

This recognition led to the advent of the Zipper Club, a volunteer group made up of former heart surgery patients who help current patients deal with the emotional aspects of their illness.

LaVan says studies like the ones presented at the Baltimore meeting help advance the understanding of how emotions affect health.

"The conclusions are not too surprising, but the question becomes, 'Can you do anything to change someone's attitude?'" he says. "Maybe you can to some degree, but my clinical experience tells me that if a patient is walking around with a big black cloud over his head there's not much you can do about it."

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MINERALS IMBALANCE RESPONSIBLE FOR ILLNESS AND DISEASE!

“It is bad news to learn from our leading authorities that 99 percent of the American people are deficient in these minerals, and that a marked deficiency in any one of the more important minerals actually results in DISEASE. Any upset of the balance, any considerable lack of one or another element, however microscopic the body requirement may be, and we sicken, suffer, shorten our lives”

READER’S DIGEST reported U.S. Senate Findings - March 1936

* 1999 report; Low Magnesium along with a few other low minerals is known to cause heart attacks and slow to fast heart arrhythmias.

*2000 report; Prostate and colon cancer patients have been found low in several minerals.

2001 Researchers found that; that those with the higher selenium levels had as much as 60 percent lower risk of developing lung cancer.

2001 Researchers report; A host of cancer has been traced to one or more low minerals count

*2008 Study found; Low Magnesium causes Chronic hypersecretion of insulin and may facilitate gallstone formation.

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Boehringer Inhaler May Raise Stroke Risk
Mar 18, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) - Drug maker Boehringer Ingelheim has told regulators that patients using its respiratory inhaler may face a greater risk of stroke.

The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that data submitted by the German drug maker show a slightly higher rate of stroke for patients using its Spiriva Handihaler, compared with a placebo. FDA said it has not yet analyzed the figures, which were compiled from 29 patient studies.

According to the company's analysis, two out of every 1,000 patients using Spiriva are at risk for stroke.

Boehringer jointly markets the Spiriva inhaler with Pfizer Inc. (PFE) (PFE) The device is approved to treat chronic obstructive lung disease, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema.

Boehringer is expected to report more safety data in June.

Until then, FDA recommends that doctors and patients report any side effects of inhaler use.

Shares of New York-based Pfizer Inc. rose 22 cents Tuesday to $20.79 in afternoon trading.

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LAUGHTER IS A SERIOUS MEDICINE

I thought this could help with your daily laughter medicine as at leasst 15 minutes a day required for good health!

Many diets are ridiculous, ineffective, and even dangerous. RNCentral.com has compiled 25 such diets ranging from those that merely don't work, to those that are somewhat effective but deceptively advertised, to those that can cause you physical harm.

Some of the most amazing that anyone would buy into, and ever so ridiculous are:

1. The Tapeworm Diet: This one involves swallowing cysts that you've dissected out of beef carcass. You allow the tapeworm to live in you for up to 10 weeks. One of the most dangerous diets, it requires you to swallow a parasite and encourages unhealthy eating habits.

2. "The Weight Loss Cure They Don't Want You to Know About": The "cure" consists of ingesting the urine of pregnant women. Whether or not this is effective, there are simply better ways to lose weight.

3. The Wu-Yi Tea Diet: Wu-Yi tea is simply oolong tea, offering no more benefits than the tea you can pick up at your grocery store.

4. The Subway Diet: Eating at Subway for all of your meals is not inherently healthy; it depends on what you order. Plus, this diet is useless because you can just as easily make your own sandwich and take a walk.

5. The Cabbage Soup Diet: Eating a low-calorie cabbage soup for one week has been purported to help you lose up to 10 pounds. However, there's the problem of high sodium content, extremely low protein, feelings of weakness and increased flatulence.

6. The Low-Fat Diet: Low-fat products aren't any healthier than regular products, as they typically trade fat for more sugar, sodium or calories. Meanwhile, serving sizes are often skewed to make unhealthy food seem healthier.

7. Slim Fast: You may lose weight drinking Slim Fast shakes, but the products are not satisfying enough to subsist on long-term. This diet offers nothing more than ineffective substitutions.

8. Russian Air Force Diet: This diet allows you to put all kinds of herbs, sauces and spices on your meals, but the ?meals? are incredibly tiny, leaving you hovering near starvation.

Sources: RNCentral.com February 26, 2008

Melting Pace of Glaciers Is Accelerating, Report Says
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
March 18, 2008

The report charts changes through 2006. It was issued Monday by the World Glacier Monitoring Service, which is based at the University of Zurich and supported by the United Nations Environment Program.

"The latest figures are part of what appears to be an accelerating trend with no apparent end in sight," said Wilfried Haeberli, the director of the glacier service.

The study included data from 30 glaciers spread around nine mountainous regions.

Several ice experts not associated with the report said year-to-year changes in the overall mass of ice locked in these moving frozen rivers did not always denote a trend. But they added that the long-term trend was clearly toward a warming world with less mountain ice - and related water troubles, including both floods and shortages, from the Andes to the Himalayas.

The global average temperature dropped from its seasonal norm in recent months, and the Northern Hemisphere has had unusually extensive snow. But many experts have said those developments are almost assuredly a short-term wiggle on the way to more warming and melting from the influence of long-lived greenhouse gases produced mainly by burning fuels and forests.

The big danger ahead, several glacier experts said, is that the loss of glaciers would take away a summertime source of river water, drinking water and hydroelectric power in populous, relatively poor places like South Asia and the cities along the western slope of the Andes.

"Millions of people depend on the runoff from mountain snow and ice in the warm seasons," said Peter Gleick, who has studied water and climate for two decades and is the president of the Pacific Institute, a private research group in Oakland, Calif. "Climate change is going to make that runoff disappear."