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Reading poetry is good for your health, just like prayingthe rosary or chanting. Cardiologist Francois Haas says, “Ifthere’s a message, it’s that our internal rhythms can bemodified by external stimuli.”

Randy Dotinga writes in abcnews.com that researchers studied20 healthy men and women, average age 43, who read Homer’s”The Odyssey,” while machines monitored their hearts andlungs. As they read the verses, their breathing rates sloweddown, and their heart and breathing rates became moresynchronized.

Other research has shown that the rosary and the “Om” yogamantra both reduce respiration to six breaths a minute,helping the heart work more effectively. This could be onereason why saying the rosary make people feel better.
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Young people seem to be more susceptible to the vCJD, thehuman version of Mad Cow Disease. Scientists don’t know ifthis is because they eat more hamburgers.

142 people have died from Mad Cow Disease in the U.K. in thelast 9 years, and most of them have been young. Computermodels show that 48% of people with the disease should beover the age of 40, but only 10% actually are?everyone elsewho gets it is young.

Researcher Pierre-Yves Boelle thinks eating more hamburgerscan?t explain this. He says, “We found that exposure alonecould not explain the young age of vCJD cases as seen in theU.K. One possible explanation for the difference insusceptibility could be that the permeability of theintestinal barrier changes with age.”
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Tens of millions of people along the east coast of the U.S.and Canada may drown if a volcano off north Africa slidesinto the sea. Some time in the next few thousand years, theCumbre Vieja volcano on the Canary Island of La Palma willcollapse, sending a 300 foot high tsunami across theAtlantic.

The collapse began when the volcano erupted in 1949. Iterupts every 25 to 200 years. The last eruption was in 1971;before that, the previous eruption was in 1712.

Scientist Bill McGuire says we’ll have seven to ten hourswarning after the volcano crashes. The tsunami would hitnearby islands within an hour and reach the north Africancoast within two hours. We could have more than a day’swarning if we were watching for signs that the volcano wasabout to erupt.
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William Henry traveled to Egypt and brought back new wisdom,which he’s collected here in his brand newbook.It’s filled with photographs and insights and, being WilliamYou’ve never experienced Egypt until you’ve seen itthrough William Henry’s eyes! AND you get a free DVD of his”Stargate” lecture when you order this?or any other?WilliamHenry book WHILE SUPPLIES LAST.

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