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Stressed parents ‘make kids ill’

Parents with stressful lives may be making their children as well as themselves vulnerable to illness, research suggests.

A University of Rochester study, reported by New Scientist, found sickness levels were higher in children of anxious or depressed parents.

It also found links between stress and immune system activity in the children.

A UK scientist said children were “highly resilient”, and urged parents not to worry about the findings.

The mind/body connection has fascinated philosophers for centuries going as far back as Plato in western philosophy. The Dualists seem to have been losing for quite some time culminating in pop culture with Morpheus warning Neo that the mind cannot live without the body. Now it appears as if the circle of mind/body connections is even wider.

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What happens in Vegas may make its way back to the British Foreign Office,  Older Brits behaving badly abroad

 It said it had witnessed the rise of an OAP — “overseas and plastered” — phenomenon among the over-55s.

People in this age group are taking more foreign holidays than before, but a fifth of them are taking risks they would not contemplate at home.

Bungee-jumping, parasailing, water-skiing and moped-riding are just some of the activities on the holiday itineraries of today’s older generation.

More than half of those drink more alcohol than usual while on holiday, and a third said they would indulge even more in an all-inclusive resort, according to a poll of 1,020 British adults for the Foreign Office.

They could always claim they were relieving some stress so they wouldn’t pass it along to the kids.