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“Calmness and calmness”, - would tell well-known fairy-tale hero. Now the American scientists joined his opinion. According to their discovery anger and irritation, particularly among men of mean age, results in the rapid wear of lungs.
Specialists from Harvard found out, that anger leads to impairment of hormonal processes, influences immunity and, in the end, becomes reason of internal damage. Research is based on the test, in which 670 men age 45 to 86 years participated.
8 years-long researches showed that furious men suffer from wear of lungs much more often then benevolent and quiet. Scientists underline that experimental group included, mainly, former military, and representatives of poor layers of population.
Possibly, nervousness and lungs wear were caused by certain unknown factors.
At the same time, results of previous researches said, that spite results in heart troubles, asthma, high blood pressure and other ailments.

Absence of sleep may lead to serious problem, when brain ends to produce new cells. Such conclusion was made by Americans after an experiment made on rats.
Specialists from research institute found out, that the loss of sleep influenced on work of hippocampa, area of cerebrum, participating in work of memory, and the influence is caused by the hormone of stress.
During the experiment scientists compared activity of animal brain, deprived of sleep for 72 hours, with those which slept normally. The first group showed high level of corticosterone, or hormone of stress.
Meantime sleep expert doctor Nil Stanly, who works in the university clinic of the English city Norwich, considers that results of experiment of his American colleagues shouldn’t be straight carried on people, as people do not stay awake during three days, if certainly, they are not in extreme conditions.
Nevertheless, doctor Stanly adds, “It is interesting conclusions. It would be interesting to know, whether the partial loss of sleep leads to a similar effect, when you sleep every night a bit less than is needed for your organism”.

Through kiss you may catch cytomegalovirus infection - the virus of millennium - a virus of cytomegalovirus infection, which World Health Organization included in the list of those determining in this millennium.
This virus is revealed in urine of every hundredth new-born child. Among the children of 1 every fifth is already infected. To 35 years 40 percents of population become infected with this dangerous infection. At the same time, it’s almost impossible to protected yourself from a virus. And an ordinary kiss becomes the most often reason of infection.
That is why this infection deserved the name ‘‘illness of kisses’’.
Such statistics doesn’t mean at all that the whole population of planet is incurably ill. Being in the organism, virus rarely declares itself, only sometimes causing common cold. But if immunity of a man is weakened – illness can show itself in various forms.
Specific medications against infection do not exist. However you can strengthen immunity and, in addition, if doctor assigns, take appropriate tests.