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ANGER MANAGEMENT: CONTROL YOUR TEMPER BY AVOIDING THESE 4 FOODS

ANGER MANAGEMENT: CONTROL YOUR TEMPER BY AVOIDING THESE 4 FOODS

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By Sara Novak

Did you know that eating certain foods can help you control your temper?Image Credit: Stockbyte/Thinkstock/ DCL

Tempers run in my family and it's not something to be proud of. Blowing your lid is often something you end up regretting later. Yoga and diet has helped me to control my temper by taking a step back before I react in anger. Just because tempers run in your family doesn't mean that you can't control yourself. In fact, it's just the opposite. We have the ability to control outcomes and especially, our role in them.

First off, if anger is a part of your world consider meditation. Meditation allows you to view your emotions and listen to them without reacting. This way when you get mad you're less likely to blow your lid and more likely to think about the things you say and do before you do them. If you're already susceptible to anger certain foods can make matters worse.

Keep reading to learn about 4 foods worth avoiding.

1. Coffee

Coffee can make us cranky. When I drink too much coffee it tends to make me jumpy and quicker to open my mouth. Do you have something worth saying or will it just hurt someone else's feelings? Could you frame your argument more compassionately? Coffee gives us a high with so much energy sometimes we don't know where to put it. Stay balanced by switching togreen tea or yerba mate. Both supply a boost while keeping you calm and collected.

2. Tomatoes

The ancient science of Ayurveda says that tomatoes are a heating food, which can cause anger. If you're prone to reacting in anger, you're likely at least partially a pitta dosha, the element made of fire. A little fire is good, it leads to better digestion. But too much fire leads to anger and the side effects of anger like stress and the resulting guilt.

3. Spicy Peppers

Spicy peppers again heat the body up and if you're already heated, you don't need anything else to help fuel the flame. Pitta dosha is aggravated during the summer time. Restore and maintain balance by avoiding this heating food when it's already hot outside.

4. Wheat and Milk Products

The main allergic response to wheat and casein in milk products can be brain inflammation, which causes hostility according to BeWellBuzz. Casein, which is found in dairy and gluten in wheat, has been linked to aggression.

Mars soil analysis reveals surprising amount of water

Mars soil analysis reveals surprising amount of water

This could be a useful resource for future astronauts.

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There is a surprising amount of water bound up in 

the soil of Mars.

According to an analysis done onboard the US space

 agency's (NASA) Curiosity rover‚ when it heated a 

small pinch of dirt scooped up from the ground‚ the

 most abundant vapour detected was H2O.

This could be a useful resource for future astronauts.

Lifestyle changes necessary to combat cardiovascular diseases

Lifestyle changes necessary to combat cardiovascular diseases

This was stated by the experts at the World Heart Day organised at the Aga Khan University Hospital.

Lifestyle changes are necessary to combat the 

cardiovascular diseases.

This was stated by the experts at the World Heart 

Day organised at the Aga Khan University Hospital.

The experts maintained that even more alarming is 

the fact that over a third of all deaths in Pakistan

 are caused by CVD which has emerged as the leading

 non-communicable disease in the country.

Cardiovascular diseases are a group of disorders of

 the heart and blood vessels. Heart attacks and 

strokes are usually acute events and are mainly 

caused by a blockage that prevents blood from 

flowing to the heart or brain.

In Pakistan‚ prevalence of hypertension has been found to be nineteen per cent in population

 over fifteen years of age.

Perhaps even more worrisome is that up to 25 per cent of the children in Pakistan are either

 overweight or at risk of being overweight.

This year the global theme `Take the road to a healthy heart' focused on lifestyle changes in

 order to prevent and control cardiovascular disease with a special focus on women and children.

5 Factors that Affect Human Intelligence

By Maria Trimarchi

Human intelligence is not only difficult to measure; it's also difficult to define. Most researchers, these days, will tell you that our intelligence is a combination of what we know (our knowledge), our skills and our ability to understand and reason -- and that our cognitive abilities continue to grow throughout our lives, rather than being set at birth. The basis of intelligence is likely a combination of several factors. For example, are you biologically destined to be only as smart as your parents? Biology, though important, is only part of the intelligence package. Other factors, including everything from what we eat to where we live, can also affect our intelligence. But first, let's look at what's in our genes.

Are your parents' good genes responsible for your intelligence? Researchers believe there's more to it than that.Image Credit: ©iStockphoto.com/Thinkstock

5: Nature

How much does our intelligence depend on our genes? For more than a century, researchers have been studying how much our genetic legacy influences our intelligence. After all that time, they've determined that our genes do influence intelligence and IQ. However, the percentage of that influence may range anywhere from 40 to 80 percent [source: Norrgard].

Additionally, our brain structure and functionality -- both biological factors -- contribute to our level of intelligence. Using brain imaging, neuroscientists have identified differences in brain structure, specifically differences in our parieto-frontal pathways, that seem to affect our intelligence positively (or negatively, depending on the brain). Well-functioning pathways correlate to better brain functioning, brain efficiency and information processing, which all point to better IQ scores.

4: Early Nutrition

As it turns out, you really are what you eat. And what your mom ate during her pregnancy. Prenatal and early nutrition are linked to brain structure, behavior and, yes, intelligence.

The greater nutrition in the foods we eat, especially for males in the weeks just after birth, the greater the size of the caudate -- that's the part of our brain that specializes in learning and memory -- and the greater our verbal IQ scores. And the effects also seem to apply to babies whose prenatal diets were rich in long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as DHA (docosahexaenoic acid). When pregnant and lactating women have diets rich in these fatty acids, their offspring are more likely to score higher on intelligence and achievement tests at ages 4 and 7.

Breast-feeding: Higher IQ?

According to a study led by Terrie Moffitt, of King's College, London, only babies who inherit at least one copy of the C version of a gene called FADS2 had any associated IQ boost from being breast-fed [source: The Economist].

3: Nurture

How much nature versus nurture affects human intelligence is a long-studied and long-debated topic. The term "nature" refers to how genetics and heritability influence our intelligence, and "nurture" describes how certain environmental factors affect our intelligence. These factors include everything from our family's parenting style and home environment to how we're educated and the experiences we have throughout our lives.

Researchers often study twins who've been separated at birth to understand further the roles nature and nurture play in human intelligence. They theorize that if intelligence is purely biological, identical twins separated at birth should still have equal IQs. But that's not always the case, they find. While you may be genetically predisposed to an average intelligence level, a quality education and life experiences may enable you to turn an average IQ into a great one over a lifetime.

2: Birth Order

People have been studying whether or not birth order affects human intelligence for more than a century, yet we're still just not sure. For years, it was believed that firstborns and older children in families were more intelligent than their younger siblings. And there are more firstborn children who've become space-bound astronauts, U.S. presidents and Nobel Prize winners than kids with older siblings. Why? Families with just one child may have more time and financial resources to put toward educating that child. Recent studies, however, observe that it may not be intelligence -- our potential for learning, understanding and reasoning -- that's affected by birth order, but rather our IQ (intelligence quotient). IQ tests measure our intelligence aptitude and compare us to our peers. Firstborn children, on average, score three points higher on IQ tests than their closest, next-born siblings.

Birth Order and Personality

While researchers continue to study if, how and why birth order affects our intelligence, they're also looking at how birth order affects our personalities. They've found that firstborn children tend to be perfectionists and people-pleasers, while their younger siblings are often more extroverted and sociable.

1: Environment

We may be genetically predisposed to a certain brain volume, structure and pathways -- a certain level of intelligence set by our biology -- but how much we achieve isn't based in biology alone. The type of life we lead also affects intelligence. Environmental factors, such as the diet we eat, the toxins we're exposed to both in the womb and as we age, and even the neighborhood we choose to live in -- be it dangerous or safe -- all influence how genes are expressed in our lives.

Let's use cigarette smoke as an example. Exposure to the toxins in cigarette smoke -- while in the womb and throughout a lifetime -- is known to lower our intelligence quotient, decreasing IQ scores by more than seven points when compared to individuals who aren't exposed to cigarette smoke [source: American Friends of Tel Aviv University]. Such environmental factors are thought to influence our intelligence levels throughout our lives.

The great nutrition (and toxins) we're exposed to in the womb may play a role in our intelligence.

10 Ways To Raise Your Consciousness

10 Ways To Raise Your Consciousness 

Becoming more conscious is the progressive realization of conscious mastery over your mind. 
1. Truth - 
Truth raises your consciousness. Falsehood lowers it. 
First, accept the truth. Whatever you’re afraid to know lowers your consciousness. 
Secondly, speak the truth. If honesty is a challenge for you, it’s because you aren’t being honest enough with yourself. Lies you tell others are shadowed by lies you tell yourself. The more you’re able to accept and speak the truth, the more conscious you become. Raise your consciousness by uncovering and dumping all traces of falsehood from your life. Allow this to be a gradual process. As your consciousness increases, genuine honesty will come more easily to you. Yes, there may be consequences when you switch from lies and half-truths to the full truth, but highly conscious people know that crossing that bridge is well worth the effect. A short-term adjustment is nothing compared to the joys of living honestly and openly. It’s so much easier and less stressful to be yourself and allow others to do the same. Not everyone will appreciate the real you, especially if they’ve grown accustomed to a false version, but that won’t matter once you accept and appreciate yourself. 

2. Courage - 
Courage raises your consciousness. Cowardice lowers it. 
Courage is the gatekeeper between unconscious growth and conscious growth. As long as you remain on the unconscious side, life will keep throwing problems at you until you step up and take charge. When you face your fear, the fear vanishes, and problems transform into opportunities. But when you run from your problems, your fear only grows. A powerful guiding principle to adopt is, “Whatever I fear, I must face.” The more fears you face down, the more conscious you become. As you master this lesson, eventually courage becomes less necessary. Once you develop the courage to face any fear life throws at you, you stop attracting so many fear-based experiences into your life. This is why courage is the dividing line between unconscious growth and conscious growth. The mastery of courage gives you the power to decide how you’ll grow instead of being a victim of the whims of fate. 

3. Compassion - 
Compassion raises your consciousness. Cruelty lowers it. 
A great way to become more conscious is to search for signs of unconscious cruelty and disconnection in your life. This can be very difficult to do since it also requires courage. We naturally resist facing our own cruelty, but it’s there just waiting to be uncovered. Compassion is the root of unconditional love, a feeling of connectedness with everything that exists. Do you feel connected to yourself? To others? To animals? To all living things? To everything that exists? The more you develop this connection, the more conscious and aware you become. 

4. Desire - 
Desire raises your consciousness. Apathy lowers it. 
When you get clear about what you want, such as by setting a goal, you raise your consciousness. Clarity focuses your mind and gives you the power to think and act intelligently. You can feel this effect whenever you think about something you definitely want. On the other hand, when your desire is unclear, your consciousness is muddled. Your thoughts lack focus and direction, and you merely spin your wheels. Strive to become more clear about what you truly desire most, and your consciousness will expand. 

5. Attention - 
Attention raises your consciousness. Distraction lowers it. 
Improving your ability to concentrate will make you more conscious. Pick up a rock and give it your full and complete attention, and notice what happens. But allow your mind to be riddled with distractions, and your consciousness will sink. A distracted mind is a powerless mind. Meditation is a great way to practice attention and concentration. Sit quietly, breathe deeply, and focus your mind as you do your best to tune out distracting thoughts. This is simple to learn, but it can take a lifetime to master. 

6. Knowledge - 
Knowledge raises your consciousness. Ignorance lowers it. 
First and foremost, know thyself. Think deeply about your life, and keep a journal to record your thoughts. Ask questions to which you don’t know the answer, and then search for those answers. Look around you as well, and soak up knowledge like a sponge. Interact with your environment with a sense of curiosity and wonder. Study it. Learn from it. Experiment with it. Strive to understand reality, including your role in it, as accurately as possible. The more accurate your beliefs about reality are, the more conscious you become. 

7. Reason - 
Reason raises your consciousness. Irrationality lowers it. 
Logic is a powerful tool of consciousness when used correctly. It lends structure and substance to thought. However, the great challenge of logic is the avoidance of false assumptions. A single false assumption can throw off a lifetime of otherwise logical conclusions. So challenge all of your beliefs, and never have too much certainty about those that rest on clouds. 

8. Conscious people - 
Conscious people raise your consciousness. Unconscious people lower it. 
Seek out others you perceive to be at a higher level of consciousness than you are. Talk to them, ask questions, and enjoy their presence. Allow their ideas and awareness to infect you, and you’ll find yourself expanding in all directions. You’ll become more honest, more courageous, more compassionate, and so on. But spend time with people at a lower level of consciousness, and you’ll gradually sink to their level. Their thoughts will infect you as well, causing you to become more dishonest, more fearful, more apathetic, etc. Strive to find a balance between spending time with those who raise your consciousness vs. spending time with those you can help. Learn from those who are a little more conscious, and help those who are a little less conscious than you. In this manner you serve the highest good of all, expanding consciousness everywhere. 

9. Energy - 
Energy raises your consciousness. Disease lowers it. Take care of your physical body, for it is your primary means of interacting with the world. Energy gives you an ongoing flow of vital life experiences. But without energy you starve your consciousness. Eat with an awareness of what you’re consuming. Exercise with an awareness of how you’re affecting your body and mind. Before putting anything in your body, consider its effect on your energy, not just in the short term but in the long term as well. Always ask yourself, “Will this produce energy or disease?” 

10. Intention - 
The intention to raise your consciousness raises it. 
The intention to lower your consciousness lowers it. Consciousness has the capacity to self-expand or self-contract, just as you have the capacity to grow or to commit suicide. In any given moment, you have the freedom of choice. By genuinely voicing the intention (or by offering the prayer), “I intend to become more conscious and aware,” you will initiate the expansion of your consciousness. Holding the intention to improve in any of the previous nine areas will yield a similar effect. Alternatively, you are perfectly free to lower your consciousness at any time. While it’s unlikely you would choose to do so directly, you can achieve the same effect indirectly by lowering your performance in any of the previous nine areas. By choosing to lie, to succumb to fear, to commit acts of cruelty, to remain ignorant, and so on, you put out the intention to lower your consciousness. And in so doing, you initiate a process that will attract more falsehood, fear, cruelty, ignorance, etc. into your life. 

by Steve Pavlina 

Top 10 Computer Viruses

Top 10 Computer Viruses

Remember when viruses were just for living things?

By now, computer viruses have become a regular annoyance of modern life and having a sick computer can slow you down far worse than your average cold.

Here are a few computer viruses of note, from the innocent to the malicious.

No. 01 - Storm Virus

Storm gets its name from the trap that is its method of infection.

Starting in early 2007, users began receiving emails with the subject line, "230 dead as storm batters Europe," and a link to the story.

Don't click! No! You've instead been led to an infected site, and you're now downloading the virus, like it or not.

The Storm headlines changed to suit the news, but the virus stayed just as dangerous, infecting as many as a million computers and recruiting them into its botnet.

What's more, Storm has gotten sneakier over time, sending out emails that appear to be from tech support saying to click on a link for a security upgrade (quite the contrary) or sending links to online porn or celebrity photos or even an ecard.

To this day, it remains a major security risk and continues to spread in new ways, including via links inserted into blog postings and bulletin boards. Watch out.

No. 02 - Sasser Virus

The Sasser worm was a destructive beast when it hit in 2004, counting big targets such as the British Coast Guard (which lost its mapping capabilities), Agence France-Presse (which lost its satellite communications) and Delta Airlines (which had to cancel flights when their computer system went down).

Universities, hospitals and large corporations all reported infections that caused computers to repeatedly crash. So, who was responsible for this large-scale act of cyberterror? A rogue cell? An unfriendly government? How about a 17-year-old German kid? Bingo.

Thanks to his young age, Sven Jaschan served no jail time. He was, however, sentenced to 21 months probation and some community service. Ah, youth.

No. 03 - Nimda Virus

Nimda (that's "admin" spelled backward) hit the virus scene in 2001 and quickly (very quickly) rose to the top.

In just 22 minutes, Nimda went from a nothing to being the most widespread computer virus on Earth. How?

It spread via email, via Web sites, via server vulnerabilities. It pretty much had all the bases covered. It even used some old backdoors opened up by past viruses to get into servers and muck up Internet traffic.

As for the fear factor, Nimda had great timing, hitting just a week or so after the Sept. 11 attacks and prompting fear that it was the first in a new wave of Al Qaeda cyberterror attacks.

Those fears turned out to be unfounded and, while a few networks may have crashed, our Internet infrastructure is still standing today.

No. 04 - Melissa Virus

Melissa was a new virus for a new age: the email age. Forget floppies, this one was among the first to spread via the dreaded email attachment.

It also pioneered the art of breaking into your address book and sending itself to all your contacts. The virus would arrive via an innocent-looking email that told you to open a document… and why would you open a document from a stranger? You wouldn't.

Remember the whole address book thing? So, when you got an email from, say, your boss, telling you "Here is that document you asked for," there's a pretty good chance you might open it. Whoops.

Hacker David Smith claimed he wrote the virus for a stripper named Melissa who he had met in Florida. Right, because everyone knows girls are suckers for a destructive bit of code.

No. 05 - Code Red I and II Computer Viruses

The Code Red viruses were very, very sneaky worms.

They didn't require you to do anything to become infected (you didn't need to open an attachment or download a file); all it took was an active Internet connection for the virus to take advantage of a flaw in the Windows operating system. And what did the viruses do?

Well, for one, they turned your computer into a slave, letting someone offsite operate it remotely. That means they could steal what was on your computer or even use your computer to do some bad things…like, say, overloading the White House computers by telling all the infected computers to contact its address.

Luckily, the government was able to shift to another address to escape the attack, but other servers weren't so lucky. In the end, over 200,000 servers were hit by the Code Red virus in 2001.

No. 06 - Morris Computer Virus

The Morris worm started as an experiment, insists Robert Tappan Morris, who in 1988 was a Cornell graduate student.

He distributed the worm in an attempt to gauge how big the then-infant Internet was, but things kind of got out of control from there. The worm spread to some 6,000 university and government computers, slowing them down (and occasionally causing them to crash) as it copied itself (often numerous times on one machine) and spread.

Morris was convicted and fined, but served no time for his little research project. Today, he's a professor at MIT. Let's hope his students have learned from their professor's mistakes.

No. 07 - ILOVEYOU Virus

The ILOVEYOU virus went for the heart, hoping you'd take a chance and open an attachment labeled as a love letter.

Really? People fell for this? Yes.

As many as 10 percent of all Internet-connected computers were infected at the virus's peak in 2000.

The virus spread through the email attachments, but it also replicated itself on a computer's hard drive, directing the computer to download a password-stealing application from the Internet.

Worldwide damage estimates were in the billions of dollars. All for love, right? Yeah, not so much.

No. 08 - Brain Computer Virusr

Brain may not have been the most sophisticated virus, but in 1986 it was the first to really target PCs, via Microsoft's then-dominant DOS operating system.

The virus ate up a huge chunk of memory and caused computers to display a message warning that they had been infected.

It even told them whom they should call to get disinfected: a couple of brothers in Pakistan. Those brothers, the original developers, claim they weren't trying to cause so much trouble; they created the virus as a means of copy protection for their medical software...but then someone else came along and copied that bit of code and the brothers got more than they had bargained for, with pleas for disinfection coming from around the world.

The moral of the story? Be careful what you program.

No. 09 - Conficker

What made Conficker so huge, when it hit in late 2008, was the mystery surrounding it. Ooooh, Conficker.

It had a scary-sounding name and, even scarier, it wasn't really doing anything…yet.

Conficker was assembling an army of computers, called a botnet, but no one was sure where the battle would be.

The virus was telling the infected computers, now potentially zombies, to contact specific sites on certain days...was it to obtain further instructions? Their orders? Who knows?

Most companies and governments installed security patches to protect their computer systems, but some infected machines remain out there, still part of the army.

In theory, they're still ready to serve if Conficker calls.

No. 10 - Elk Cloner

Remember Apple II computers? They were common in school classrooms in the 1980s...which is fitting, because this early virus, perhaps the first to target personal computers, was designed for Apple IIs and written by a high-school kid.

Richard Skrenta was a ninth-grader in 1982 when he wrote the virus, which caused infected computers to display a poem every 50th time they booted up.

That's it, just a poem (ah, we were so innocent back then). Because Elk Cloner was a boot sector virus, it infected any floppy disk that was placed in the computer …which in turn infected other computers.

By now, that kind of stuff is a given, but in 1982, it was groundbreaking.

Health kick 'reverses cell ageing'

Health kick 'reverses cell ageing'

They say it has found the first evidence a strict regime of exercise‚ diet and meditation can have an effect.

Researchers revealed that going on a health kick reverses ageing at the cellular level. 

They say it has found the first evidence a strict regime of exercise‚ diet and meditation can have an effect.

The researchers said that visible cellular changes in the group of 10 men switched to a vegetarian diet and stuck to a recommended timetable of exercise and stress-busting meditation and yoga.

5 WAYS TO VALUE YOUR BODY

5 WAYS TO VALUE YOUR BODY

By Mickey Z., Planet Green

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How much do you value your body?

In the film noir classic, The Third Man, Orson Welles (as the supposedly dead Harry Lime) looks down from the top of a Ferris wheel and asks Joseph Cotton (as the very naive Hollie Martins) about the people moving about on the ground..."dots" he calls 'em. Welles poses the tantalizing question of just how many dots Cotton would allow to "stop moving" if offered $20,000 for each (remember, this was over 60 years ago). How might we respond if presented with such an offer? Surely, it's obscene to talk about humans having a monetary value?

Perhaps so, but here's but one example of human life as commodity: the Ford Pinto scandal in the 1970s. It seems that the hapless Pinto couldn't withstand a rear-end impact of 30 mph without risking a fuel tank rupture. The government stepped in and actually tried to create a new regulation. The Big Boys at Ford balked, providing a mathematical formula to prove their greedy point. Here's how consumer advocate Ralph Nader explains it:

"Ford set the cost of a human life at $200,000, a burn injury at $67,000, and the value of an incinerated auto at $700. Ford then figured in that in Pintos there would be 180 deaths, 180 burn injuries, and 2100 burned vehicles per year. Using those figures, Ford set the benefit of the 30 mph standard at $49.5 million per year. Ford then stated that it would cost the company $11 per auto to meet the standard for a total cost of $137.5 million."

Fortunately, the type of "value" I'm talking about here in relation to our bodies is far more positive. It's about the steps we can take to demonstrate how much we value our precious time here on Earth and how that value can translate into us being better earthlings.

Keep reading to learn 5 Ways to Value Your Body.

1. Avoid Toxins

There are 63 synthetic chemical products found in the average American home, translating to roughly 10 gallons of harmful chemicals. According to US EPA estimates, indoor air pollution levels can be 100 times higher than outdoor air pollution levels. So, whether you choose to remove tour shoes before entering your home or leave windows open to circulate fresh air or make the crucial switch to more earth-friendly cleaning products, start taking steps to detoxify your body.

2. Exercise

Thousands of books have been written on the thousands of benefits of exercise so here's just one factoid to pique your interest: Research studies have found consistent moderate intensity physical activity may reduce a person's risk for developing type 2 diabetes by 40% to 60%. As fitness expert and owner of Core Fitness, Michael Margulies toldme: "Exercise is the fountain of youth."

3. Stress Relief

Two thirds of Americans say they are likely to seek help for stress and 54% of Americans are concerned about the level of stress in their everyday lives. Here are 12 ways a stressed but Earth-friendly human find inner peace without the stress of substantially deepening her/his carbon footprint.

4. Planet-Based Diet

At 98.7° (body temperature), animal fat is solid (think: pork chop) while plant fat (think: olive oil) is liquid. Not surprisingly, the risk of death from heart attack for the average American is 50%. For a vegan: 4%.

5. Green Your Mind

The above steps can value our bodies and our minds. More abstractly, we can green our mindsin a few other ways, like mindfulness, interdependence, awareness, and speaking out. As some guy named Proust once said: "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

Early-life stress can affect long-term health

Early-life stress can affect long-term health

Those who are exposed to pressure and stress whether prompt by 

family or society they are more likely to suffer from depression.

Stress in early stages of life may expose a person 

to bad health in coming years of life.

Those who are exposed to pressure and stress 

whether prompt by family or society they are

 more likely to suffer from depression‚ heart 

disease and diabetes.

Scientists from University of virgina found out

 that the sense of control tends to decline as one

 descends the socioeconomic ladder‚ with 

potentially grave consequences.

Those on the bottom are more than three times 

as likely to die prematurely as those at the top.

Perhaps most devastating‚ the stress of poverty early in life can have consequences that

 last into adulthood.

Even those who later ascend economically may show persistent effects of early-life hardship.

 Scientists find them more prone to illness than those who were never poor.

Educational attainment and school performance have long been linked to socioeconomic

 class‚ and a divergence in skills is evident quite early in life.

These associations raise profound questions about stress' role in hindering life achievement.

Online anger spreads faster than joy on Weibo

Online anger spreads faster than joy on Weibo

By analyzing the influence messages had with other users‚ they 

observed angry sentiments were more rapidly shared.

Anger spreads faster online 

than other emotions such as

 joy‚ scientists say.

A team analysed the word choice

 and emoticons of people's posts 

on the Chinese social network 

Weibo and split them into the 

categories of anger‚ sadness‚ joy

 and disgust.

By analyzing the influence messages

 had with other users‚ they observed

 angry sentiments were more 

rapidly shared.

The study has been published on

 the Arxiv pre-print server‚ though it has yet to be subjected to peer review.

16 UNUSUAL FACTS ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY

16 UNUSUAL FACTS ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY

By the Editors of Publications International, Ltd.

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People will often say they know somethin­g "like the back of their hand" to indicate that they're familiar with it top to bottom. But how much do you actually know about your own body? We've got 16 tidbits that may surprise you.

1: Tongue Print

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D­on't stick out your tongue if you want to hide your identity. Similar to fingerprints, everyone also has a unique tongue print!

2: Shedding

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Your pet isn't the only one in the house with a shedding problem. Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour. That works out to about 1.5 pounds each year, so the average person will lose around 105 pounds of skin by age 70.

3: Bone Count

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An adult has fewer bones than a baby. We start off life with 350 bones, but because bones fuse together during growth, we end up with only 206 as adults.

4: New Stomach

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Did you know that you get a new stomach lining every three to four days? If you didn't, the strong acids your stomach uses to digest food would also digest your stomach.

5: Scent Remembering

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Your nose is not as sensitive as a dog's, but it can remember 50,000 different scents.

6: Long Intestines

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The small intestine is about four times as long as the average adult is tall. If it weren't looped back and forth upon itself, its length of 18 to 23 feet wouldn't fit into the abdominal cavity, making things rather messy.

7: Bacteria

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This will really make your skin crawl: Every square inc­h of skin on the human body has about 32 millionbacteria on it, but fortunately, the vast majority of them are harmless.

8: Source of Body Odor

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Th­e source of smelly feet, like smelly armpits, is ­sweat. And people sweat buckets from their feet. A pair of feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of sweat a day.

9: Sneeze Speed

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The air from a human sneeze can travel at speeds of 100 miles per hour or more -- another good reason to cover your nose and mouth when you sneeze -- or duck when you hear one coming your way.

10: Blood Distance

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Blood has a long road to travel: Laid end to end, there are about 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. And the hard-working heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood through those vessels every day.

11: Saliva Quantity

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You may not want to swim in your spit, but if you saved it all up, you could. In a lifetime, the average person produces about 25,000 quarts of saliva -- enough to fill two swimming pools!

12: Snore Loudness

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By 60 years of age, 60-percent of men and 40-percent of women will snore. But the sound of a snore can seem deaf­ening. While snores average around 60 decibels, the noise level of normal speech, they can reach more than 80 decibels. Eighty decibels is as loud as the sound of a pneumatic drill breaking up concrete. Noise levels over 85 decibels are considered hazardous to the human ear.

13: Hair Color and Count

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Blondes may or may not have more fun, but they definitely have more hair. Hair color helps determine how dense the hair on your head is, and blondes (only natural ones, of course), top the list. The average human head has 100,000 hair follicles, each of which is capable of producing 20 individual hairs during a person's lifetime. Blondes average 146,000 follicles. People with black hair tend to have about 110,000 follicles, while those with brown hair are right on target with 100,000 follicles. Redheads have the least dense hair, averaging about 86,000 follicles.

14: Nail Growth

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If you're cli­pping your fingernails more often than your toenails, that's only natural. The nails that get the most exposure and are used most frequently grow the fastest. Fingernails grow fastest on the hand that you write with and on the longest fingers. On average, nails grow about one-tenth of an inch each month.

15: Head Weight

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No wonder babies have such a hard time holding up their heads: The human head is one-quarter of our total length at birth but only one-eighth of our total length by the time we reach adulthood.

16: Need for Sleep

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If you say that you're dying to get a good night'ssleep, you could mean that literally. You can go without eating for weeks without succumbing, but eleven days is tops for going without sleep. After eleven days, you'll be asleep -- forever!