Stress Findings

ED Bites has posted some neat snippets of an article about rats and baboons coping with stress…

Tantilizing snippet (so, ya know… go to ED Bites and see the rest! ):

[H]is research, combined with a rich background provided by other scientists, has led him to figure out a bunch of very basic tips to help us cope with stress:

• An outlet or hobby. Rats who could gnaw on a piece of wood after receiving a very mild shock didn’t develop any stress-related diseases, while those with no way to “cope” with the stress did develop diseases (ulcers, high blood pressure, etc).
• Predictability. If the rats received a brief warning that the shock was going to happen, even if they couldn’t avoid it, they did not develop stress-related diseases.

Hmmm… now to find myself some wood to gnaw…

–AngryGrayRainbows