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"Marriage and Stress Despite being the butt of many jokes, across-the-board research findings show that, overall, marriage is associated with better health. In contrast to their married counterparts, unmarried women have fifty percent higher mortality and unmarried men have a 250 percent higher death rate(33). Unmarried people are also far less likely to report being happy with life than married people. These findings apply only to those in stable marriages; unmarried people are happier, on average, than those in troubled marriages(34)." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Could any person, marriage, or team ever achieve a state of pure positivity? I don't think so. But even so, perhaps being negativity-free is an ideal worthy of our strivings. Could there be a level of flourishing beyond what's currently imaginable? The beauty of having a mathematical model—like Losada's—in your scientific toolkit is that even if you can't locate that one-in-a-million person, marriage, or team that experiences no negativity at all, you can still take a stab at answering questions about pure positivity. The math tells us that the upper bound for flourishing is around 11 to i." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"Annette compared their dietary differences to being in a marriage with political differences. "There is much more to my husband than what he eats." They will soon celebrate their 47th year of marriage. She feels very fortunate to have him as her husband, as he still treats her like a queen. Now, however, her husband fervently wishes he had switched to her diet because his health is deteriorating, whereas hers is not. "Sadly," she said of her beloved husband, "he's hooked on cooked." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Stone, Radin, and their colleagues planned to examine two different outcomes: whether the training improved the marriage, and also whether there was any correspondence between the physical sensations of sender and receiver. Although they hoped to examine whether the intentions sent also affected the medical prognosis, limited funding made that aspect of the study impossible. Stone and Levine were given the task of analyzing the social aspects of the study. Initially they discovered that the training made no difference to the quality of the couples' marriages." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Wilkins said to me, "You know, Doc, I finally figured out the secret to a happy marriage." With great interest, I stopped what I was doing and asked him what it was. "When we disagree," he explained, "I just let my wife think she's right." I was impressed and humbled by his newfound wisdom. Two days later Mr. Wilkins returned to the office, again unaccompanied by his wife. At about the same point in the visit he said, "Doc, remember what I said last time about a happy marriage?" I certainly did. He said, "Well, just forget it." I confess that I felt relieved." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"In fact, Justinian's first legislative achievement was supervising the draft of a law that not merely permitted a "penitent actress [to] apply for an imperial grant of marriage" but, in the case of a person raised to patrician status, eradicated ex post facto any "othet blemish. "'9 But, while Justinian was able to convince his uncle to rescind the law that prohibited marriage between high officials and actresses, or even ex-actresses, he was thwarted by the objections of Justin's wife." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"The need to connect energy and systems was clear to me, and I wanted to illustrate some of the potential implications of their conceptual marriage to the emerging scientific and clinical marriage of psychology and medicine. I never planned to talk about the systemic memory hypothesis, it was clearly too controversial. But I did want to consider a less controversial implication, an extension of Einstein's theory of relativity as applied to stress management. I termed this the general relativity/general relaxation hypothesis." - Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek, The Living Energy Universe (Get the book.)

"My client Andrea, for instance, says her weight protects her from dealing with fear in her marriage and from acting on impulses that make her want to have an affair. She writes: "I have been using my weight primarily in my relationship with my husband. Continuing to overeat instead of taking action or risking rejection protects me. I thought that Ben was rejecting me for my weight, so staying that way gave me the illusion that [weight] was the only problem and that I wasn't the problem. I realize now that ... if I want to stay in my relationship, I will have to change." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.) "This almost-300-pound woman had used fat as a place to hide out from the fact that her marriage was a disaster since the first day, but she didn't want to admit it to herself. If she had not hidden that awareness under fat, she might have made a decision a lot earlier and started over with someone new when she was twenty-five and thin rather than facing the much tougher challenge of finding a mate at sixty-three, with a lot of loose skin to hide." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.) "Avoid Failure Strategy #3: Gorge and Purge Early in her marriage, Jan tried bulimia to stay thin. She would eat two dinners and the better part of a cake every evening. Friends marveled at her ability to stay thin. What they didn't see was what she did when she went into the bathroom. When Jan finished stuffing herself, she would find a private place and force herself to throw up. As soon as she was finished, she promised herself never to do it again, but the next time she found herself bingeing, she had to purge to make up for it. She hated herself for doing this." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"The researchers concluded that a high-quality marriage may protect against cardiovascular disease for women. In a study of 165 patients undergoing angiograms at the Yale University School of Medicine, individuals who felt loved and supported had less coronary artery disease. Obviously, affection serves the heart well. And not just in humans, as was realized from an Ohio State cholesterol study conducted with rabbits in the 1970s. Several groups of animals were fed extremely high-cholesterol diets, and, with the exception of one group, all developed artery-clogging heart disease." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "Under chronic stress—for example, constant deadlines, a rocky marriage, an unfulfilling job—your body secretes excess Cortisol, a stress hormone. Growing evidence indicates that overproduction of this and related hormones plays a major role in a wide variety of illnesses, including CVD. The hormones promote arterial constriction, high blood pressure, and increased heart rate. Stress also causes the blood to clot more. This serves the soldier exposed to life-and-death combat situations. You want more clotting should you become wounded. The clotting slows down or plugs up blood loss." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Liza immediately sacrificed her lucrative career to work full-time with Alisa, and in Liza's opinion, "That was the beginning of the end of my marriage." She began to search feverishly for the most advanced care in the world, including biomedical treatment, but she felt that "the more involved I became, the more my husband backed off. He only went to a few doctors' appointments. He was still playing a lot of golf" Liza couldn't bring herself to demonize Bill, though, because much of what they were going through was just unimaginable-like the plane trip to Colorado, for example." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "As little Alisa fidgeted against her car seat, Liza Winters remembered the days of love and ease that had blessed the early years of her marriage. She and Bill had both been making six figures, they owned a McMansion, and when they decided that it was time for Liza to get pregnant, the whole process had taken, like, ninety minutes. It had been so easy that Bill wouldn't even believe Liza was pregnant, so he called the doctor to check out her story-which was probably a bad sign, in retrospect." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Powerful Reinterpretation When I stop and keep my perspective, I'm able to see that my sister wants me to have a marriage that's as happy as hers. When I remember that she's on my side, I'm not too angry to call her, and she helps me sort out how to talk to my boyfriend. Powerless Choice #3 Sometimes late at night when no one is around, I feel lonely. I believe there is an endless ocean of tears inside me that will start flowing and never stop. When I have that thought I have to eat something." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"It made Brian's parents afraid to risk the chance of having another child, and hurt the intimacy of their marriage. Brian's dad knew that if they had another child with problems like Brian's, they'd soon be bankrupt, and everybody in both their families would be bankrupt. But they never gave up on him. It didn't even enter their minds. Brian's mom, Mary, now thinks that Brian had problems from the very beginning, possibly because of his vaccinations, and possibly because she ate tuna practically every day during her pregnancy. Even as an infant, his eye contact just wasn't right." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"The need to connect energy and systems was clear to me, and I wanted to illustrate some of the potential implications of their conceptual marriage to the emerging scientific and clinical marriage of psychology and medicine. I never planned to talk about the systemic memory hypothesis, it was clearly too controversial. But I did want to consider a less controversial implication, an extension of Einstein's theory of relativity as applied to stress management. I termed this the general relativity/general relaxation hypothesis." - Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek, The Living Energy Universe (Get the book.)

"Making these positive lifestyle changes won't necessarily save your marriage or make your neighbors more neighborly or ensure that your kids never get into trouble, but this new way of living will make you feel worlds better, look younger, lose weight, and ward off disease. Now let's explore the promise. PART ONE The Wonders of Vitamin D If you're sick and tired of feeling sick and tired, you've picked up the right book. Vitamin D deficiency is rampant in the United States today. It's mind-boggling how many health problems have a D deficiency element." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Suppositions about the regional musculoskeletal disorders, about their cause and cure, are as powerful a contemporary social construction as suppositions about the sanctity of marriage or the goals of union movements or the ethics of academic health centers. The regional musculoskeletal disorders support a great number of helpful people of many a therapeutic ilk utilizing myriad therapeutic facilities (see chapter 13). For the sake of the regional musculoskeletal disorders, factories spew forth putatively palliative pills and widgets." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Similarly, a study undertaken in Alameda County in California found an association between a reduced risk of mortality and a strong marriage, close contact with friends and relatives, church attendance, and membership in nonchurch organizations.66 Those most isolated were prone to cognitive deterioration, even after controlling for measures of physical health." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"She had a great marriage. Her children were grown and in college and they were doing well. Her husband was successful. She really had a very good life, and yet she was unhappy. Now you could simply call this a midlife crisis, and do psychotherapy. "However, when I took a psychological history—aware that this was a time of life for her to start looking inward, to evaluate her life—at the same time I asked her about her menstrual cycles. She said she was still menstruating. Her periods were changing in frequency and amount, but with no other symptoms." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"His involvement in this particular brand of research had to do with the peculiar marriage his life had made of science and science fiction. Radin was 50, but despite the presence of a thin black moustache and a receding hairline, he'd retained the knowing, childlike look of the child prodigy he'd once been. His particular instrument of precocity had been the violin, which he'd played from the age of five up until his mid-twenties. Only lack of physical stamina had caused him give up what might have been a promising career as a concert violinist." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"In fact, Elizabeth and Eric, who shared a strong faith, thanked God for many things, including the strength of their marriage, which was somehow withstanding the stress. The divorce rate among parents of autistic kids, they had learned, was about 85 percent. When Kyle reached age four, they scheduled him with the best pediatric neuropsychologist in the best hospital in the city. They had to wait three months to see her. She looked professional, and tired. She ran a number of tests, including an IQ test, and finally called them into her office. "Kyle is autistic," she said flatly." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Choose a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, or marriage counselor from the phone book, and on your first visit you may encounter a grumpy, rigid, doctrinaire authoritarian or a caring, somewhat enlightened, wise human being—all claiming to offer the same service called psychotherapy." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Bunting's Sunburn Remedy, later known as Noxema. A marriage between celebrity status and public perceptions about the desirability of using cosmetics took firm root in the late nineteenth century with the spreading popularity of photography, and then later with the advent of motion pictures. Women who had previously shunned adorning their faces with cosmetics began to request their application when they sat for portraits in photography studios." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Fruit offerings are used to propitiate spirits during ceremonies such as circumcision, marriage, cremation and tooth-filing (a custom believed to eliminate animalistic lusts and desires). Fruits invariably appear at daily contributions to various deities or alongside gamelan musicians playing ancient melodies at rites of passage. Hinduism was the first major religion to explore the concept of reincarnation using fruits. The Brhadaranyaka Upanishad explains that, after death, smoky human souls waft up to the moon the way a berry detaches from its stem." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "As a young man, he fell in love with Dolly Irwin, whose United Empire Loyalist parents were against the American Revolution—and their daughter's marriage. Eighteen-year-old Mcintosh followed Dolly soon after she and her family fled to Canada. Tragically, by the time he arrived at their encampment in Cornwall, she had passed away. In a state of grief and disbelief, he exhumed Dolly's remains to confirm that she was really dead. After sobbing upon her decomposing corpse, he set out on foot, eventually settling on a plot of land near the village of Iroquois, Ontario." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"A career is time-consuming and important, and you don't have to give it up entirely for the sake of your family or your relationship or marriage. However, you cannot expect your significant other to pick up the slack, and he or she cannot expect the same from you when your child is best served by attention from both of you. When both parents are truly doing their best to juggle work life with a family life that is complicated by ADD/ADHD, it may become necessary to seek support and assistance from outside sources." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) "Couples A frequent complaint I hear from couples with children—not just those struggling with ADD or ADHD—is that the marriage took a dive once the first child was born. First to go is the romance, as both mother and father rearrange their priorities to put the welfare of the child above their own and that of their significant other. In the case of a child with ADD or ADHD, the amount of time and attention devoted to child rearing increases as the child grows. Meanwhile, the love that brought two people together gets pushed to the background." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) "The breakup of his parents' marriage and the subsequent destabilizing of his life only worsened his behavior at a time when Stella was at her most vulnerable. In the evenings after work, Stella was too worn out to be on constant alert, but she had to be, anyway. Malcolm would break objects around the house with no apparent remorse, or would attempt to run out of the house when she wasn't looking." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

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