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...what about the popular notion that lip balm can actually dry out lips, forcing people to apply more? Doctors say the dreaded cycle is caused not by the lip balm but by the user. "What really happens," says Tsao, "is that when we use lip balm, we tend to lick the lips a lot more. It's the saliva that causes the drying." So steer clear of flavored and scented lip products, which encourage lip licking. In extreme cases, chapping leaves lips vulnerable to cold sores, which are caused by the herpes virus and triggered by stress, colds...
...number of remarriages and blended families. Making matters worse, among Americans 50 and older, only 17% have a will, a durable power of attorney and a living trust, according to the AARP. But even when parents have taken care of business, the potential for bad feeling runs high. "Parents tend to keep finances and plans a secret from the kids," says Sanford J. Schlesinger, chairman of the wills-and-estates practice at the firm Kaye Scholer L.L.P. in New York City, "and then the kids are shocked to find out what they perceive to be their parents' 'real' feelings about...
...Parents tend to forget that kids equate the equality of the inheritance with the equality of their parents' love," says psychologist Eileen Gallo, vice chair of the A.B.A. Committee on the Psychological and Emotional Issues of Estate Planning. "Parents may have good reasons for leaving unequal amounts--for example, a child who has given up a career in order to care for ill or aging parents might get more. But without discussing it with the children, parents are setting up the possibility for resentment...
...Stanford's Psychosocial Treatment Laboratory, cites a study of psoriasis patients in which half practiced meditation and half didn't; the first group healed faster. Other studies show that patients who are part of a rich social network have lower cortisol levels than loners, that people who pray regularly tend to live longer and that breast-cancer patients who have an optimistic attitude or an ability to express anger about their disease tend to live somewhat longer than those...
...just that people tend to be depressed because they have a life-threatening illness or that depressed people smoke, are too lethargic to take their medicine or aren't motivated to eat right or exercise. "Even when we take those factors into consideration," says Dr. Dwight Evans, a professor of psychiatry, medicine and neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, "depression jumps out as an independent risk factor for heart disease. It may be as bad as cholesterol...