Left-handed people suffer more from stress that their right-handed peers, according to a study of 1.100 adults by University of Michigan researches. As a result, they smoke and drink more. Fifty-five percent of the lefties smoked, whereas fewer than half of the rigthies smoked. Furthermore, the lefties consumed more alcohol per year than their right-handed counterparts.


You ought to know what to do to help a person who is choking. First, you stand behind the choking victim and put your arms around his or her waist. Second, you make a fist and place the thumb side against the person’s stomach just above the navel, but below the ribs. Third, grasp your fist with your other hand and press into the victim’s abdomen with a qaick upward thrust. Repeat this action if necessary.


What’s the best way for you, as an employer, to deliver bad news to an employee? First of all, you have to break the news yourself, face to face with the recipient. You can’t write memos to tell people they will not get raises this year or that they have made an error or are not performing as well as expected. You have to show them how you feel about the matter that you are personally sorry and sympathize with them. If you indicate that you are ready to listen to theirreactions to your bad news, you will undoubtedly save yourself from their wraffth. Above all, you must be ready for an emotional reaction from the recipient of bad news. Give people time to digest your news and to control the emotion they invariably feel. Although it is neveer easy to break bad news, if you follow these steps, you will at soften the blow.

Yogurt has as much nutritional value as glass of milk, yet dieters and health food fanatics claim that yogurt will prolong your life and reduce your girth. Their claim are backed by reports that yogurt eaters over the years have lived longer and healtheir lives than non-yogurt eaters. However, what proof is there that rural are not the cause of these persons’ longevity?


Most of us believe that the dealth of a spouse often leads to the premature death of the bereft partner. After twelve years of study involving 4,000 windows and widowers, Johns Hopkins University researchers have perceived that it is the husbands, and not the wives, whose lives are shortened by the loss of their spouses. However, the study indicates that widowers who remarry enjoy greater longevity than men the same age who continue to live with their first wives.