I’m Doomed!

Did you know that single men die younger? ” But this should wake you up a little: […] and lack of a marital partner was associated with mortality before age 85 years.” Ouch It pays to get married then, if you like a long life. (Although, frankly, 85 seems like a pretty grand old age as well.) The study How to Live a Longer, Healthier Life — for Men� by John M. Grohol, Psy.D., actually found you need to eat right, exercise and not smoke or drink to much. So most of it was not that earth shattering! Technorati Tags: Health, marraige, men powered by performancing firefox

Psychology Today: The Doctor Is Within

Psychology today has this interesting story, not to be read by hypochondriacs!

We put a lot of faith in the medical establishment these days, and doctors can certainly tell us a great deal about our constitution. But there’s one person who knows more about your health than any doctor—you. As it turns out, the answer to one deceptively simple question—”How would you rate your own health?”—predicts disease and longevity more accurately than even the most thorough medical records.Why are our own health assessments so dead on? Maybe because we monitor our ups and downs and symptoms 24/7—a perspective no doctor has access to.

“We know things that physicians cannot physically detect,” says Yael Benyamani, a health psychologist at Tel-Aviv University in Israel. Fatigue and appetite fluctuations, for example, can be symptoms of declining health, and you’re likely to be much more attuned to them than is your doctor.

Gobal warming may wipe out most birds

ABC News in Science� – Global warming may wipe out most birds�Tuesday, 14 November 2006 Birds, Seabirds and migratory birds are early responders to changes in climate, according to a new report. Hmm, I hope they got the bull by the horns. Nearly three quarters of all bird species in northeast Australia and more than a third in Europe could become extinct unless efforts to stop global warming are stepped up, a report says. Up to 72% of bird species in northeastern Australia and 38% of bird species in Europe could disappear completely if the planet’s temperature continues to rise, according to the international environmental group WWF. “This report finds certain bird groups, such as seabirds and migratory birds, to be early, very sensitive responders to current levels of climate change,” says WWF’s director of climate change policy Hans Verolme. “Large-scale bird extinctions may occur sooner than we thought,” he says in Bird species and climate change: the global status report, released today on the sidelines of the UN climate change conference in Nairobi.

Subject: politically-correctness: the ugly side

I received this from a friend in an E-mail today.

1. 1. 1. It is a joke?
      2. It scary how close to reality it is
      3. Will common sense ever win out?

CHILDREN at a British childcare centre have been taught to sing “Baa baa rainbow sheep” to avoid causing offense.

NEWS.com.au asked their readers to rewrite your favourite nursery rhyme to make it more politically correct.