Battle against stress means big business
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Sarah Kugelman once suffered so much work-related stress that her doctor told her to change her lifestyle or risk dying before the age of 40.
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Global competition can be a drag. It all but guarantees a steady stream of restructuring, outsourcing, and the nagging insecurity that comes from knowing someone out there may be trying to take your job.
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Investor's Business Daily - Playing online games just five or 10 minutes before work helps reduce stress, a study of McGill Univ. found. In the study, a group of telemarketers was asked to play a game before their shift started. The game, MindHabits, is designed so that players must find the smiling faces quickly among different faces. After a week, the group that played the game were rated as being more confident in their phone calls and made more sales. They also showed higher self-esteem, and less stress.
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Researchers studied the immune cells of women under extreme mental stress. They&#39;ve found that those cells age more rapidly in stressed-out women than in women living more normal lives.
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A mechanism in the brain may explain why some people cope better than others in the face of adversity.
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[Health India]: London, Oct 29 : Told your boss to get lost in a spur of rage? Blame it on stress.Researchers have now found evidence of how stress disrupts our rational decision-making and short-term memory.
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A new study by researchers at the University of California and San Fransisco has indicated that Psychological stress can take off several years from your life as it makes your cells age faster.
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You&#39;re less likely to remember important tasks when you&#39;re stressed out, Yale Medical School researchers confirm. While this may come as little surprise to busy moms, business executives and college students, the scientists now have an explanation.
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More than half of all employees say they have Âhigh levels of stress,Â extreme fatigue and/or feel out of control.
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Stress can prove fatal for people with 'faulty wiring' between the brain and the heart, research suggests.
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Chronic stress might speed up the onset of skin cancer in those already at high risk for the disease, a new study indicates. The research is still preliminary, involving mice, not humans.
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A few lucky people in need of a break from their stress got a chance at some of unconventional therapy. A Spanish hotel chain planning renovations at one of its Madrid locations offered 30 "highly stressed out people" &#151; selected by a team of psychologists &#151; the chance to take up sledge hammers and battering rams and smash through its rooms Tuesday.
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THE FACTS: The stress of last-minute shopping, squabbling in-laws and busy airports can make the holidays a season of headaches. But is there any connection between holiday stress and heart attacks?
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I recently participated in some war-game-style what-if exercises with a small group of IT execs. The goal was to stimulate thinking about how corporations can best prepare for, and respond to, significant business disruptions, whether from terrorism, weather, biological threats, or other unexpected shocks.
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According to a new study, stress makes you activate an enzyme in the brain called Kinase C, it is a protein which undermines your short term memory, plus some other brain functions in the prefrontal cortex.
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So, you think you're stressed? Get a load of this dream I had last week. In my waking hours, I thought I was getting along just fine, despite an abnormally heavy workload (lots of assignments -- including this article -- due at once) and the daily travails of a work-at-home mother of two. But I knew it was time to reassess when I woke, panting, from a nightmare in which: ...
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A new finding may explain how stress could ultimately lead to premature aging.