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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: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday May 11 2015, @03:06PM

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Monday May 11 2015, @03:06PM (#181484) Journal

    > Obama's Terrorist America For 1%ers And Veterans Of Recent Wars.

    Agree with the "for 1%ers bit" and frankly, my respect for veterans of Iraq / Afghanistan comes with some pretty strict conditions[1], but I thought it only fair to point out that here in the UK war vets get a pretty rough deal. I doubt it's much better across the pond, if you scratch the superficial hero worship and look at what most vets actually come home to.

    They are sent into battle zones, chewed up, spat out, and even if they are lucky enough to get home with roughly the same number of limbs they started with they have an uphill struggle getting any kind of recognition (let alone compensation) for conditions like PTSD which can ruin families, homes and lives almost as effectively as bullets and explosives. A frightening proportion of vets wind up either homeless or in prison, because they can't handle normal, peaceful, civilian life any more and the establishment[2] that put them in that position refuse to acknowledge their responsibility. They are used up and thrown away.

    [1]Sure, many are good people who wanted to fight for what's right, but many more are bigoted and abusive scum who are the last people you want representing your country abroad, especially with a gun in their hands. I've met some of those, and you don't have to google very far to see some of the unnecessary brutality committed out there. Sadly though, even the best of them were at best patriotic fools duped into mercenary work for big corporations[2] and were unwittingly complicit in screwing up the middle east for another half-century at least. Even for those with the best intentions, I have a hard time applying the word "hero" to anybody who went to fight those wars.

    [2] What was that about the 1%? Or more accurately, the 0.1%

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