Interesting article

WASHINGTON — Scientists have identified the first direct link between stress and aging, a finding that could explain why intense, long-term emotional strain can make people get sick and grow old prematurely.

Chronic stress appears to hasten the shriveling of the tips of the bundles of genes inside cells, which shortens their life span and speeds the body's deterioration, according to a small but first-of-its-kind study involving mothers caring for chronically ill children


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2002104209_stress30.html

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...Tracy

'00 ML320 "Casper"
'92 400E "Stella"

NPR had a piece this morning about high school students having to live up to family expectations on an academic level. Some were even getting gray hair.

Hence the phrase "Worry me to death".

It's been tough on Mother.

It makes her so cranky.

I'm the half bald guy with the pony tail, eh? I'm 57 now but I tell people that have the gall to ask that I'm 79

Then I claim that it's my continued drug use over all these years that must have preserved me

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