NEWS FOR PTSD SUFFERERS
Could a pill help with PTSD, some time in the future?  Perhaps yes:
"Along with first aid supplies, paramedics may one day carry a stash of pills designed to protect patients from post-traumatic stress disorder — at least that’s what researchers from Northwestern University are hoping.  Scientists there have found a medication that can prevent an exaggerated fear response in mice very similar to PTSD in people, according to a study just published in the journal Biological Psychiatry.  “Someday emergency personnel could be prepared to deliver this kind of help, just as they do bandages,” said the study’s senior author, Dr. Jelena Radulovic, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and Dunbar Scholar at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine."


HOW TO DEAL WITH THOSE HOLIDAY POUNDS
A new study has a simple answer:
Run or bicycle before breakfast. Exercising in the morning, before eating, the study results show, seems to significantly lessen the ill effects of holiday Bacchanalias."


Read the whole thing.  I was especially glad to read this, for this is usually what I do--do a bunch of sit-ups before breakfast.  It helps wake me up, if nothing else.


Never ruin an apology with an excuse." -Kimberly Johnson