Friday, February 19, 2010

You Look Marvelous!

We loved that skit! This is the second time we've quoted the character since we've began this and it's doubtful that many people will even remember either Billy Crystal or that he ever was a member of the NBC late night weekend program. There certainly isn't much internet evidence available to prove it. (This is the horrible music video that only gives a hint of the humor of the original) We just didn't think a comedy skit credo would be taken so seriously by so many people. What should be important is the good feelings and maybe reflecting those good feelings on your face. That's something we all could learn to do, in our humble opinions.

Does happy make you beautiful or do you feel beautiful because you're happy? Dr. Karina W. Davidson, PhD at the Columbia University Medical Center reported in 2006 in Pschosomatic Medicine reviewing Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) and depression by getting a group of great minds together.

Don't worry, be happy: positive affect and reduced 10-year incident coronary heart disease: The Canadian Nova Scotia Health Survey - We examined the association between positive affect and cardiovascular events in 1739 adults (862 men and 877 women) in the 1995 Nova Scotia Health Survey... In this large, population-based study, increased positive affect was protective against 10-year incident CHD, suggesting that preventive strategies may be enhanced not only by reducing depressive symptoms but also by increasing positive affect.(The European Heart Journal)

Canadians are considered easy going, friendly and overly polite individuals so it might not be information readily transferable to every population and every situation. Our own anecdotal experiences with Pearlie Mae, Mamie and Alice was that attitude was extremely important to their health and well-being. The better they felt without the aid of pain medication the better their responses and the quicker their physical recovery. The information reported yesterday with Hawaii as the healthiest and has the greatest feelings of well being in the nation would seem to contribute to these result. What's most exciting is that research is continuing. Dr. Davidson is continuing her research finding the root causes for depression well into 2011 "comparing "Depression Interventions After Acute Coronary Syndrome (CODIACS)" with other schools including The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
"We suggest a process for clinical psychologists to collect an evidence base and join the evidence-based movement already underway in many areas of medicine. To illustrate this process, we review the history of cholesterol discovery, evaluation, and management as an evidence-based process, extracting lessons applicable to the field of psychology. By examining these lessons and building consensus, clinical psychologists can advance the movement along an evidence-based practice continuum, improve client care, build a more informative evidence base, and promote equitable reimbursement for psychological practice." (Karina W. Davidson Dec 2005)
Our only problem with the Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health is their focus on the purely clinical with little information for patients with that in mind and even though their research makes it easier to live a "couch potato" lifestyle we need to let it go! We do! All of the joy individuals feel don't come from their particular residence as earlier studies indicated we find joy amidst the sorrow. Even in the least joyful states there are happier areas. Indeed the only participants in the study might have been only the joyful. If anything such studies should indicate that joy is all around us.That however is just our point of view - it might not be yours. Neither opinions would be particularly scientific, scientifically viable or even verifiable.
Implanted Device Causes Body to Naturally Lower Blood Pressure - "A multi-center, 300-patient trial led by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is testing the efficacy of the Rheos Baroreflex Hypertension Therapy System. The Food and Drug Administration-approved system is implanted surgically, with minimal scarring, under the skin in the neck and electronically stimulates the receptors in the carotid sinus, the area located at the bifurcations of the carotid arteries that are responsible for regulating blood pressure." - Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC)
Now this kind of research makes us happy. We included it because it is also from the same Columbia University Medical Center as the other research. This is what we're looking forward to using. Anything that will allow us to not to take medication, that we can sit in our recliners and put our feet up and sit on our rears in front of our big screen televisions and be healed. Now that's what we call research and that's why we love science.

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