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posted by martyb on Monday May 11 2015, @03:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the please-pass-the-tissues dept.

According to a story at International Business Times, growing up poor can have a range of consequences for a person’s status and future opportunities — and it can also make someone more likely to catch colds later in life, a new study shows. Writing in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity, Carnegie Mellon University psychologist Sheldon Cohen and colleagues say they’ve found a connection between childhood poverty and a middle age with more sniffles, coughs and sneezes.

"We have found initial evidence for a biological explanation of the importance of childhood experiences on adult health," Cohen said in a statement. "The association we found in young and midlife adults suggests why those raised by parents of relatively low socioeconomic status may be at increased risk for disease throughout adulthood."

http://www.ibtimes.com/poverty-childhood-makes-you-more-susceptible-colds-later-life-study-1452070

 
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Bogsnoticus on Monday May 11 2015, @03:46AM

    by Bogsnoticus (3982) on Monday May 11 2015, @03:46AM (#181337)

    Gather enough nasal mucus, add some grey food colouring, and sell them off as organic oysters at the local hipster market.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @03:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @03:49AM (#181339)

    Does it have to be nasal mucus or will vaginal mucus be equally acceptable?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @03:52AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @03:52AM (#181341)
      Does vaginal mucus gets secreted when catching a cold?
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @03:53AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @03:53AM (#181342)

        Does it have to be a cold or will a yeast infection work?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @04:20AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @04:20AM (#181350)

          Does it have to be a cold or will a yeast infection work?

          Hipsters read "International Business Times" and IBTimes doesn't mention anything about yeast infections. So I guess it won't work.

    • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday May 11 2015, @01:33PM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday May 11 2015, @01:33PM (#181458) Homepage

      I own a boutique eatery in the North Park area of San Diego, and it's true, hipsters will eat anything as long as you tell them it's handcrafted and made in small batches.

      Hipsters will eat any kind of mucus, they also eat smegma (I tell 'em it's handcrafted artisan goat cheese), and drink piss (I piss in empty cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon in the back house of the bar). They eat it and drink it and their eyebrows raise and they say, "Wow, this stuff sure has a kick to it!" They're like the White version of that Black guy who was tricked into eating human shit in that movie The Ladies Man.

      I'm raking in record profits thanks to gullible mustachioed trust-fund kids of Hedge-fund managers and other Jews, and there doesn't seem to be any shortage of those morons moving into San Diego.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @03:13PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @03:13PM (#181489)

        That's pretty weak trolling from EF there. Nowhere near his usual standards. He must have a cold or something.