A new study commissioned by insurer Direct Line has confirmed what millions of brew-lovers have long believed – a nice cup of tea helps us calm down during stressful times.
But that’s not it: Even the tea-making ritual provides a “chillout moment” that significantly reduces anxiety levels after stressful experiences.

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A new study lead by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine shows that social stress could be a major precursor to heart disease by causing the body to deposit more fat in the abdominal cavity, speeding the harmful buildup of plaque in blood vessels, a stepping stone to the number one cause of […]

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According to a new research at the University of Southern California Davis School of Gerontology, men under stress are more likely to take risks, correlating to such real-life behaviour as gambling, smoking, unsafe sex and illegal drug use.
Men seem to enter more risky financial situations than women, which was part of the impetus for our […]

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A Japanese study suggests that men in high high-stress jobs are more likely to suffer a stroke than those in less demanding positions.
Background information in the study report, appearing in the Archives of Internal Medicine, reveals that stress is considered a risk factor for stroke.
The study report further states that several models of job stress […]

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Researchers from Manchester University and Lubeck University, in Germany, have created a drug that restores white hair to its natural colour.
The new drug provides hope to people whose hair has turned white because of illness or extreme stress.

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A new study from Tel Aviv University has found that stress plays a crucial role in cancer progression even if the primary tumour has been removed through operation. The team leader concluded that stress before, during and after surgery impairs immune system functioning and leads to cancer recurrence.

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A recent research reveals that post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be the result of stressors adding up like building blocks, remodeling the plastic brain in a cumulative rather than a once-and-for-all fashion. Much more, stress causes deterioration in everything from your gums to your heart and can make you more susceptible to everything from the common […]

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A research team at the University of Michigan School of Public Health found that people with ongoing stress in their lives are more likely to develop post-traumatic stress symptoms after experiencing a traumatic event.
To better understand what factors might increase the risk of post-traumatic stress symptoms, the researchers followed 2,752 New Yorkers for 30 months, interviewing […]

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A research study at Ohio State University in Columbus revealed that the stress hormone norepinephrine appears to promote the biochemical signals that stimulate certain tumor cells to grow and spread.
The new finding may suggest a new way of slowing the progression and spread of some cancers so that conventional chemotherapeutic treatments would have a better […]

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Reserchers at the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk UK carried out a survey of 2,037 over-16s and revealed that stress of modern life is a disaster for sexual relationships.
Stress caused by financial worries, tiredness and work difficulties are affecting the sex lives of up to 15 million people in UK. Their subsequent loss of libido and […]

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