Stress Affects Looks and Health

[From article]
Stress can make you ugly by making your face look less healthy, a study has found.
Men and women became 'significantly more attractive' to potential partners if they had lower tension levels than their rivals.
British behavioural ecologist Dr Fhionna Moore looked at how mental or emotional strain can affect physical appearance.
The diminished attractiveness was blamed on the anxiety hormone cortisol, which increases the amount of glucose floating around your body while also inhibiting muscle and bone growth.
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'Cortisol is an interesting hormone because it is released when we deal with a stressor, and allows us to cope in the short term.
'But if it's elevated for longer periods, though, for example during more difficult times, it can be very bad for our health,' said Dr Moore, a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Dundee.
She has conducted several investigations into the phenomenon and is currently giving free speeches on the subject called, 'Facing up to Beauty - Is it Really Skin Deep?'
In one study, she measured levels of cortisol from saliva samples and took photographs of the faces of our participants.
'We found that the faces of men and women who had high levels of cortisol in their saliva were rated as less attractive and healthy than those with lower levels of cortisol.
'Although we haven't yet identified specific cues to stress in the face, it seems to come down to simply how 'healthy' someone looks.'
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According to Dr Moore, cortisol helps us to deal with stress by shutting down unnecessary functions, like reproduction and the immune system.
It stimulates gluconeogenesis - the making of new glucose - in the liver, using amino acids, lactate, glycerol, and propionate.
Cortisol also inhibits insulin from transporting glucose into cells, meaning it remains present in the blood stream and can in time damage blood vessels.
It also inhibits the uptake of amino acids into the muscle cells, which has a negative impact on bone and muscle growth.
Meanwhile Dr Moore claims men who can handle stressful situations appear instantly more attractive to women.
'We believe that the link between low stress levels in men and high attractiveness to women is because an ability to handle stressful situations suggests a strong genetic make-up, the future suitability of a partner, and their ability to pass on 'good genes' to their children,' she said
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Getting a good night's sleep, once again, has a two fold benefit.
Bad sleep is both a cause and affect of stress - if you sleep poorly you're going to be stressed and if you're stressed, you're going to sleep poorly.
So you get stuck in a vicious circle. Getting a good night's sleep is very important to ensure that you're body can deal with stress.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3290291/How-stress-makes-UGLY-Emotional-strain-gives-men-women-unhealthy-look-repels-potential-partners.html

How stress makes us UGLY: Emotional strain gives men and women 'unhealthy look' which repels potential partners
Men and women were more attractive if they had lower tension levels
Study found anxiety hormone cortisol can affect how healthy we look
But men who can handle stressful situations were appealing to women
By Kate Pickles For Mailonline
Published: 12:11 EST, 26 October 2015 | Updated: 15:32 EST, 26 October 2015

Updated (3): Columbia Law School Postpones Exams Due to Stress from Protests, Harvard Law Students, "Me Too!"

Posted December 8, 2014 9:21 PM ET; Last updated May 28, 2015 4:37 PM ET



That does it. I'm petitioning my landlord, and my credit card company for an extension from paying rent, and monthly card payment. Too much emotional and psychological stress, from this national media propaganda campaign. The University of Virginia responded to a report in Rolling Stone magazine by suspending fraternities on campus. Who needs laws and rules? Who needs courts and police? Universities don't need no stinkin' laws. Media drives the nation and Harvard Law School. This campaign shows the strength of the current student body and faculty in their willingness to uphold laws and the constitution of the United States. The law school community prioritizes fairness and justice for all. Who needs the law? What is it that you expect law students and law professors to support? What is law anyway? "Just words." as Harvard Law School graduate, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick would say. If the current crop of students cannot maintain rational thought processes after reading political propaganda, what can be expected of them when they are practicing law? Does relaxed rectitude explain the popularity of the Obama-Holder doctrine, which permits selected individuals to ignore inconvenient laws?

[From article]
The Texas SCV's design caused a commotion because the organization's logo includes the Confederate battle flag. The Texas committee that approves specialty plates approved the SCV plate before it disapproved it because an official considered the plate "controversial." The Texas Transportation Code says that the state may refuse to create a plate "if the design might be offensive to any member of the public." Yes, any.
A district court rejected the SCV's contention that this decision was unconstitutional, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit held that specialty plates are private speech, so the state had violated the First Amendment by engaging in viewpoint discrimination against the SCV.
Texas is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court, probably in vain. The SCV's brief notes that "every circuit to address a specialty plate program enabling private parties to submit their own specialty plate designs has held that the plates constitute private speech, the First Amendment applies, and regulation has to be viewpoint neutral."
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The new entitlement aims to spare the people this burden. At many American colleges and universities, where thinking goes to hibernate, freedom of expression is restricted for the purpose of sparing the delicate sensibilities of the most exquisitely sensitive people on the campuses. The First Amendment is construed to stipulate that there shall be no abridgement of free speech — unless the speech annoys, saddens, angers, dismays or otherwise discombobulates the emotional equilibrium or intellectual serenity of any listener.
Inevitably, this entitlement is expanded to include the right to assume a fetal position and be absolved of burdens if news of some event in the wider world distresses some students. So, Columbia University Law School recently allowed students to postpone final exams if these frail flowers felt that their performance would be "impaired" because they had been traumatized by the fact that grand juries in Ferguson, Mo., and New York did not indict police officers in cases involving Michael Brown and Eric Garner.
Columbia evidently is training lawyers for a United States so tranquil it will not need any lawyers.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will121814.php3

A license to debate: State takes aim at the First Amendment
By George Will
Published December 18, 2014

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[From article]
Similar requests have been made at Georgetown Law and Columbia Law School.
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The wave of activism was sparked by the decisions of Ferguson and Staten Island grand juries not to indict two police officers in separate cases that led to the deaths of two unarmed black men.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/12/10/law-students-petition-school/

In Light of Grand Jury Decisions, Law Students Petition for Exam Extensions
By TYLER S. OLKOWSKI,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
December 10, 2014

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Eric "White People Are Cowards" Holder's Law Degree Is From Columbia University School of  Law.

Updated December 9, 2014 10:34 PM ET

[From article]
Columbia University Law School has granted exam extensions to students who feel under stress due to the failure of Grand Juries to indict in the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.
Now students at my alma mater, Harvard Law School, are demanding similar treatment, as well as excoriating the HLS administration for not publicly feeling their pain.

The Coalition at Harvard Law School created a website for the exchange of letters.
I have confirmed with the Harvard Law communications office that the letters are authentic.
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[Group Signers]
Harvard Law School Affinity Group Coalition:
Harvard Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Executive Board
Harvard Black Law Students Association
Harvard Middle Eastern Law Students Association
Harvard Muslim Law Students Association
Harvard Native American Law Students Association
La Alianza
Lambda
Supero

In support:
ACLU
Harvard Law School Chapter Advocates for Human Rights
Harvard Defenders
Harvard Environmental Law Society
Harvard Journal on Racial and Ethnic Justice
Harvard Law School Feminist Coalition
Harvard Law School Justice for Palestine
Harvard Law Students for Reproductive Justice
Harvard Law Students for Sustainable Investment
Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project
Harvard Student Representative Board, Executive Officers
National Lawyers Guild
Students for Inclusion
The Harvard Asia Law Society
Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left

http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/12/harvard-law-students-also-demand-exam-delay-due-to-ferguson-and-garner/

Harvard Law students also demand exam delay due to Ferguson and Garner
Posted by William A. Jacobson

Monday, December 8, 2014 at 5:15pm


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[From article]

Columbia Law School is permitting students claiming to be impaired due to the emotional impact of recent non-indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner matters to postpone taking their final exams.
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Columbia Law School is permitting students claiming to be impaired due to the emotional impact of recent non-indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner matters to postpone taking their final exams.
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But anyone so unstable as to be incapable of preparing for and taking exams due to grand jury proceedings not involving themselves or their families should be given an indefinite leave of absence in which to get better.
What is really behind the request for postponement of exams? I suspect it’s the fact that the students in question would rather protest with their friends and perhaps disrupt New York City than read cases, review lecture notes, or whatever it is that students do these days to prepare for exams. In addition, the students in question presumably want the law school to take their side on what they take to be a political question. In other words, this is, in part, a power play.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/12/not-a-parody.php

POSTED ON DECEMBER 6, 2014

BY PAUL MIRENGOFF
NOT A PARODY

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[From article]

four professors have made themselves available for that purpose. The four are: Katherine Franke, Conrad Johnson, Olati Johnson, and Susan Sturm.
Who are these professors and what are they likely to say to support traumatized students? The law school’s website answers the first question.
Katherine Franke’s research centers on U.S. racial history; feminist theory; queer theory; sexual and gender rights in global contexts. Her principal areas of teaching are feminist and critical race theory; law and culture; civil rights law; critical legal thought. She is the director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law.
Conrad Johnson directed the law school’s fair housing clinic, which specialized in civil rights litigation. He is co-creator of the law school’s first distance-learning offering, the seminar in race-conscious remedies (such as racial quotas). The law school’s website says that he’s a nationally recognized leader in diversity in legal education.
Olatunde Johnson came to Columbia after serving with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the ACLU National Legal Department, for which she was senior consultant on racial justice. Her areas of expertise include anti-discrimination Law, equal protection law, and “public interest” law practice.
Susan Sturm is a professor of law and “social responsibility.” Her areas of expertise include employment discrimination and race and gender.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/12/how-to-talk-to-a-traumatized-law-student.php

POSTED ON DECEMBER 8, 2014
BY PAUL MIRENGOFF
HOW TO TALK TO A TRAUMATIZED LAW STUDENT

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http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/12/columbia-law-school-and-the-apotheosis-of-newspeak.php

POSTED ON DECEMBER 8, 2014

BY PAUL MIRENGOFF I
COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL AND THE APOTHEOSIS OF “NEWSPEAK”

Stress, Cortisol and Weight Loss

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They found that women who reported having one or more worries burned an average of 104 fewer calories in the seven hours after eating the meal than those who had none. Over a 12-month period this could lead to a weight gain of 11lb or 5kg.
The stressed women also had higher levels of insulin, which contributes to the storage of fat. To make matters worse, the authors say those who are stressed would be more likely to eat high-fat, comfort food.
Lead researcher Jan Kiecolt-Glaser, professor of psychiatry and psychology at Ohio State University, said: ‘This means that, over time, stressors could lead to weight gain.
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The researchers do not know what happens to men’s metabolism and body weight when they are stressed.
They suspect the findings would be slightly different because they have more muscle, which means their metabolism is different. Other studies have found that stress causes us to eat more – particularly sugary, high fat foods. Experts say this the body’s natural response to a threat.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2690965/How-stress-make-woman-pile-pounds-It-slows-metabolism-add-stone-just-year.html

How stress can make a woman pile on pounds: It slows down the metabolism and
could add up to a stone in just a year
Worrying could mean you will burn off 100 fewer calories a day
Researchers do not know what happens to men’s metabolism and body weight when they are stressed.
They suspect the findings would be slightly different because they have more muscle
By SOPHIE BORLAND
PUBLISHED: 23:15 EST, 13 July 2014 | UPDATED: 03:14 EST, 15 July 2014


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[From article]
The study, which has been published in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, showed that it was 'low responders' who would adjust their eating habits and reduce their food consumption while plagued with stress, as well as increasing their physical activity.
'High responders', would instead continue with their regular eating habits and exercise would not have a great effect on their muscles, leading to rapid weight gain.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2697935/Is-secret-curing-obesity-The-bodys-response-STRESS-could.html

Relax, researchers may have found the key to weight loss... The body's response to STRESS could determine how effectively we lose weight
How our bodies respond to the release of stress hormone cortisol determines how well we lose weight
Low responders are more likely to eat less and increase physical activity when stressed
High responders begin to eat more while their muscles become slower at burning energy
By LILLIAN RADULOVA
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 18:39 EST, 18 July 2014 | UPDATED: 21:24 EST, 18 July 2014

Stress Test, Long or Short Life?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2646104/How-long-YOU-live-Take-interactive-test-based-stress-levels-diet-lifestyle.html

How long will YOU live? Take this interactive test - based on your stress levels, diet and lifestyle - to find out
Called Project Big Life, it was created by Canadian medical experts investigating the deaths of 70,000 people
Takes into account factors such as fruit and veg consumption, stress levels and existing medical conditions
Plus the amount of sport and leisure activities undertaken each week, household income and height/weight
By ANNA HODGEKISS
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 08:00 EST, 15 June 2014 | UPDATED: 13:30 EST, 15 June 2014

Are Increased Mental Illnesses Intentionally Created By Obama's Liberalism?

This article does not recognize that psychiatry is a business promoted by the drug industry.

[From article]
What on earth is going on? Why isn’t medical science – and for that matter all of our incredible scientific and technological innovations in every area of life – reducing our stress and lightening our load? Why doesn’t the almost-magical availability of the world’s accumulated knowledge, thanks to the Internet, make us more enlightened and happy? Why is it that, instead, more and more of us are so stressed out as to be on a collision course with illness, misery, tragedy and death?
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We just re-elected perhaps the worst president in history,
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, 11,000 new people signing up for food stamps every single day, rising taxes for the entire middle class whose net worth is simultaneously shrinking, ever-higher prices for food, gas and other essentials – and overshadowing it all, a galactic national debt burden, courtesy of a wildly out-of-control government unrestrained by either the Constitution or common sense.





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This sort of stress on Americans is not only intentional on the part of Team Obama – it is strategic. Remember, these people are revolutionaries (that is, engaged in “bringing about a major or fundamental change,” as Merriam-Webster puts it) and utterly committed to replacing one societal structure – America’s constitutional, limited-government, free-enterprise system – with another – a socialist, wealth-redistributionist system run by an all-powerful government.
Such a radical change cannot be accomplished while Americans are calm, happy, content and grateful for their blessings.





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a few pages into Saul Alinsky’s notorious “Rules for Radicals,” one encounters repeated confirmation that the very key to radical “change” is keeping the populace angry, encouraging their grievances, stoking their resentments and making sure they are continually upset.
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despite our nation’s growing number of seriously troubled people, psychiatry provides little help. It has evolved in our secular, mechanistic culture to see virtually all mental, emotional and spiritual problems as genetic or physiological in origin. No longer is there any such thing as sin. Nothing is moral or spiritual. Good character, introspection, understanding, repentance and forgiveness, so vital to genuine healing, are now irrelevant. Just write a prescription.
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 Do you really believe that the 23 percent of American women ages 40 through 59 currently on antidepressants ALL have defective or diseased brains?

http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/americans-snapping-by-the-millions/

STRESSED & DEPRESSED
AMERICANS 'SNAPPING' BY THE MILLIONS
Exclusive: David Kupelian reveals record fear, stress, suicide – and inspired way out
April 21, 2013

Stressful Jobs, Non Stressful Jobs

In 2009, the top most stressful jobs were a surgeon, commercial airline pilot, photojournalist, advertising account executive, and real estate agent. The least stressful jobs were actuary, dietitian, astronomer, systems analyst, and software engineer. - Provided by RandomHistory.com

Black Death of the 21st Century?

If stress at work is dangerous what are the health implications of being harassed 7 days a week by police, and criminals, employed by the FBI? What effect does daily character assassination and sleep deprivation have on a human body?

[From article]
"Stress has even eclipsed stroke, heart attack, cancer and back problems, according to the report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2045309/Stress-Top-cause-workplace-sickness-dubbed-Black-Death-21st-century.html

Stress 'is top cause of workplace sickness' and is so widespread it's dubbed the 'Black Death of the 21st century'
By Becky Barrow
Daily Mail (UK)
Last updated at 8:11 AM on 5th October 2011

Southerners Have Lowest Stress Rate

Southern folk never worry 'bout nothin...

Southerners have the lowest stress rate because they do not take medical terminology seriously.

Artery.............................. The study of paintings

Bacteria.......................... Back door to cafeteria

Barium............................. What doctors do when patients die

Benign............................. What you be, after you be eight

Caesarean Section...... A neighborhood in Rome

Cat scan........................ Searching for Kitty

Cauterize....................... Made eye contact with her

Colic............................... A sheep dog

Coma............................ A punctuation mark

Dilate............................. To live long

Enema............................Not a friend

Fester............................. Quicker than someone else

Fibula............................ A small lie

Impotent........................Distinguished, well known

Labour Pain................. Getting hurt at work

Medical Staff............... A Doctor's cane

Morbid........................... A higher offer

Nitrates.......................... Cheaper than day rates

Node............................... I knew it

Outpatient..................... A person who has fainted

Pelvis................. .......... Second cousin to Elvis

Post Operative............ A letter carrier

Recovery Room.......... Place to do upholstery

Rectum........................... ****** hell, damn near killed him

Secretion....................... Hiding something

Seizure......................... Roman emperor

Tablet........................... A small table

Terminal Illness.......... Getting sick at the airport

Tumor............................ One plus one more

Urine............................. Opposite of you're out

Most Stressful Colleges

According to this ranking by the Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com

Tufts University is the number one ranked for crime; Harvard is number two and MIT is number 3. The article does not explain what number one means. It is either the safest or the most dangerous.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-04/the-50-most-stressful-colleges/?cid=hp:mainpromo5#

The 50 Most Stressful Colleges
by The Daily Beast
Daily Beast
April 4, 2010

Stress Causes Heart Disease

Stress Causes Heart Disease


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1243852/Stress-It-really-cause-heart-attacks-say-researchers.html

Stress really CAN cause heart attacks, say researchers
By Mail On Sunday Reporter
Daily Mail (UK)
Last updated at 3:09 AM on 17th January 2010