Text: The more friends the lesser the risk of heart diseases./UFO rams the Andes

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Thanks to Terry for going to a lot of trouble to get these.

 

 

Terry <hogoddy

Sunday, 15 February 2004 4:41

 

 

http://newsfromrussia.com/science/2004/02/13/52290_.html

February 13, 2004 5:20 pm

The more friends the lesser the risk of heart diseases.

 

Men who have many friends they can turn to for support are significantly

less likely to develop heart disease, findings from a new study show. A

group

of Swedish investigators found that men with the most social support were

about half as likely to develop heart disease as men who had the least

social

support.

Study author Dr. Annika Rosengren told Reuters Health that these results

likely apply to women, as well, since previous research has shown that,

among

women with heart problems, those who have few quality friends they see on a

regular basis tend to have more widespread disease than others. Although

these

findings are compelling, the reason why having close friends and staying

connected to them might help people's hearts remains a mystery, Rosengren

said.

Consequently, the best thing people can do to keep their hearts healthy

is

still to stop smoking, eat well and get good exercise, the researcher added,

informs IribNews

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during the study, Rosengren and colleagues followed 741 50-year-old men for

15

years, recording their levels of social support and who developed heart

disease.

The researchers found that men who showed the highest levels of social

integration - meaning they had many quality friends whom they saw on a

regular

basis - were only 45 percent as likely as men with the least social

integration to have heart disease.

Similarly, for men who had the most friends to lean on when needed - a

factor known as emotional attachment - the odds of developing heart disease

were only 58 percent as high as for men with the least amount of emotional

attachment.

 

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UFO rams the Andes

02/11/2004 14:40

Peruvian scientists are puzzled by the actual causes of a powerful

earthquake in one of distant regions of the country.

 

Supposedly, the quake was caused by an unidentified bright object. Head of

the department of Geophysical Institute Arekipa Armando Minaya confirmed the

assumption.

 

A powerful quake (3,5 on the Richter's scale) has been reported within 1000

kilometers south of Lima on Monday, February 2. Local peasants informed the

Institute of a " bright object " collapsing to the ground. Witnesses claim

they heard major explosion and noticed smoke.

A team of scientists has been sent to the place of the mysterious crash.

Scientists in turn claim that it might have been a gigantic meteorite, since

no signs of an earthquake have been reported in the South American country

in the past few days.

 

Source: http://www.Korrespondent.net

 

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