 
Article Date: 27 May 2010 – 2:00 PDT
Researchers in the US found that brief vigorous exercise can reduce cellular aging by preventing the shortening of telomeres due to stress.
You can read about the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) study in a paper published online in the open access journal PLoS ONE on 26 May.
Co-lead investigator, Dr Elissa Epel, an associate professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry, said in a statement that:
“Telomere length is increasingly considered a biological marker of the accumulated wear and tear of living, integrating genetic influences, lifestyle behaviors, and stress.”
Read in Full:Â http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/190053.php
 
May 26, 11:16 AM
As children with autism enter what can be the cruel social world of junior high years, the subject of bullying in the school shifts front and center as a topic of concern. Often these students can find themselves the targets of teasing and bullying for their seemingly eccentric behaviors or apparent ignorance of the social dynamics around them and reluctance to interact with their peers. While there are many articles and books written on the subject, one new addition is a short book entitled Four Minutes a Day (54 pages) by educator, E.C. Bernard who is nearing her twenty-fifth year as an educator.
Bernard focuses on what she calls “entertainment bullying†– that is, bullying to an audience in order to build a reputation for being perceived as “cool†within a peer group. The bully in such cases typically uses these tactics to solicit a reaction which can impress those in the bully’s social circle, or a social circle in which the bully seeks to be included.
You can purchase a copy of E.C. Bernard’s Four Minutes a Day here.
Read in Full:Â http://www.examiner.com/x-2195-Autism-Examiner~y2010m5d26-New-book-seeks-to-thwart-bullying-of-those-with-autism
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May 26, 11:16 AM
As children with autism enter what can be the cruel social world of junior high years, the subject of bullying in the school shifts front and center as a topic of concern. Often these students can find themselves the targets of teasing and bullying for their seemingly eccentric behaviors or apparent ignorance of the social dynamics around them and reluctance to interact with their peers. While there are many articles and books written on the subject, one new addition is a short book entitled Four Minutes a Day (54 pages) by educator, E.C. Bernard who is nearing her twenty-fifth year as an educator.
Bernard focuses on what she calls “entertainment bullying†– that is, bullying to an audience in order to build a reputation for being perceived as “cool†within a peer group. The bully in such cases typically uses these tactics to solicit a reaction which can impress those in the bully’s social circle, or a social circle in which the bully seeks to be included.
You can purchase a copy of E.C. Bernard’s Four Minutes a Day here.
Read in Full:Â http://www.examiner.com/x-2195-Autism-Examiner~y2010m5d26-New-book-seeks-to-thwart-bullying-of-those-with-autism
 
Incident Took Place At Sacramento’s Rosa Parks School
updated 12:21 p.m. ET May 27, 2010
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – KCRA.com
A 13-year-old student with autism was arrested after a physical confrontation with a Sacramento police officer assigned to the boy’s school.
The boy’s mother, Belinda Torres, said her son was being bullied at Rosa Parks Middle School and that the principal did nothing about it.”They assured me that this was taken care of and it was a safe environment, and if it was, this would not have happened,” Torres said.
Police said Kaaron Guillory had a fight with another boy, and a confrontation with school staff members and a police officer ensued. He cut himself smashing a window.
A photo of a bloodied Guillory was taken of him being treated by medics after the confrontation, Sgt. Norm Leong said.
Read in Full:Â http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37367905/ns/local_news-sacramento_ca/
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Incident Took Place At Sacramento’s Rosa Parks School
updated 12:21 p.m. ET May 27, 2010
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – KCRA.com
A 13-year-old student with autism was arrested after a physical confrontation with a Sacramento police officer assigned to the boy’s school.
The boy’s mother, Belinda Torres, said her son was being bullied at Rosa Parks Middle School and that the principal did nothing about it.”They assured me that this was taken care of and it was a safe environment, and if it was, this would not have happened,” Torres said.
Police said Kaaron Guillory had a fight with another boy, and a confrontation with school staff members and a police officer ensued. He cut himself smashing a window.
A photo of a bloodied Guillory was taken of him being treated by medics after the confrontation, Sgt. Norm Leong said.
Read in Full:Â http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37367905/ns/local_news-sacramento_ca/
 
Cindy Haines, Chief Medical Officer of HealthDay and Managing Editor of Physician’s Briefing recently remarked that “Grief is an inevitable component of life lived fully. It is a rare soul, indeed, who passes through unscathed. But losing a child ranks at the top of the hardest to bear.â€
I have thought about this so often: What I would do if one of my kids died before me? I can’t begin to appreciate the pain, the heartache, a bereaved mother or father must feel, and the reserve of strength and determination that is needed to forge ahead.
Read in Full:Â http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2010/05/26/on-losing-a-child/
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Cindy Haines, Chief Medical Officer of HealthDay and Managing Editor of Physician’s Briefing recently remarked that “Grief is an inevitable component of life lived fully. It is a rare soul, indeed, who passes through unscathed. But losing a child ranks at the top of the hardest to bear.â€
I have thought about this so often: What I would do if one of my kids died before me? I can’t begin to appreciate the pain, the heartache, a bereaved mother or father must feel, and the reserve of strength and determination that is needed to forge ahead.
Read in Full:Â http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2010/05/26/on-losing-a-child/
 
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on May 26, 2010
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Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on May 26, 2010
Most of us think that exercise improves sleep. But it may be that thinking that exercise improves sleep improves sleep. That, at any rate, is the provocative finding of a new study completed recently in Switzerland and published last month in the journal of the American College of Sports Medicine.
For the study, 862 Swiss college students were asked to record how much they exercised, how fit they believed themselves to be (on a scale from 1 to 10) and how well they slept (on a scale from 1 to 8). The correlations between how much some of the students exercised and how fit they believed themselves to be was not very precise. More than 16 percent of the students who rated themselves low on the fitness scale actually exercised the most. In other words, they worked out more than many of the other students but felt they weren’t doing enough.
Read in Full:Â http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/phys-ed-does-exercise-help-you-sleep-better/