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The increase in blood pressure associated with loneliness is about the same magnitude as reductions attained through weight loss and regular physical activity in people suffering from hypertension.

By these standards, improving ones sense of social connectedness could have clinical benefits comparable to lifestyle modifications, the authors wrote.

The team based their research on a study of 229 people aged 50 to 68.

Participants were randomly chosen and asked to rate its connections with others through a series of topics, such as “I have a lot in common with the people around me,” “My social relationships are superficial,” and “I can find companionship when I want it.” The research team took into consideration other factors like race, weight, alcohol consumption, smoking, blood pressure medications, and demographic characteristics and found that people who rated high on being lonely had a significantly higher blood pressure than non-lonely people with similar profiles on the other measures.

More research is required to determine the exact causal relationship, however the researchers did offer some possible explanations.

“Lonely people differ from non-lonely individuals in their tendency to perceive stressful circumstances as threatening rather than challenging,” Dr.

Cacioppo said in a statement.

“[Lonely people] passively cope with stress by failing...

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When I get home from work, I go straight into the studio from like 12 a.m.

to 4 or 5 a.m.” He lives in Staten Island so his commute to school is long—two hours each way.

He gets a lot of ideas during this time and writes lyrics on the train and the ferry.

He joked, “You’ll see me on my cell phone humming things into it.” Barone has had some success, performing at the Apollo Theater and at Crystal and Shelter, two Brooklyn nightclubs.

He was also featured in the Staten Island Advance.

This summer, Barone has already landed an internship with SONY/ Columbia Records.

He hopes to learn as much as possible about the music industry through this internship.

If you would like to get in contact with Stefan, please call him at (646) 239 1825 or e-mail him at sb056444@baruch.cuny.edu.

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There was, believe it or not, also a pill to deal with fear, defined in the pamphlet as “a feeling of uneasiness, anxiety, agitation or concern as a result of an impending danger.” (That, if I may say so, would be a useful pill to have in one’s pocket as the count down to election year 2007 one begins.) The extent to which the culture of pill taking has taken hold in our society is illustrated by a made-in-Nigeria television commercial that I saw the other day.

It opens with a board meeting in progress.

Everyone in the room is looking wide awake except this poor fellow whose general appearance suggests that he has a cold, a headache, a lower back pain and a hangover.

The camera is panned to the man sitting to his left who, with a knowing look, whips out a sachet of pills and offers it to the sufferer.

The sufferer pops one into his mouth and in the blink of an eye he is bubbling with life again.

The list of pills currently in use is long enough, but I believe there are still some gaps that scientists may try to fill.

For example, with so many people carrying around with them an excess baggage of bad memories, there surely is a need for a pill to induce amnesia, making people forget their problems even if only temporarily.

Bottled alcohol already serves this purpose, but imagine how much less unobtrusive a capsule of 75 per cent proof whisky would be.

The reverse side of the coin would be a pill for memory improvemen...