Show u— i ne ioyan omn neraia journal i uebudynndy a ivui Pets help in coping with stress other ailments ATLANTA (UPI) — There’s a simple way to cope with your stress lower your blood pressure help yourself recover from a heart attack or mental illness avoid loneliness and even live longer — get yourself a pet Alan Beck director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Interaction of Animals and Society says studies show that animals play a role in the handling of human stress recovery from disease and coping with physical and mental illness Aside from these scientific lindings there is a large body of anecdotal evidence on the important roles pets play in the lives of people Beck told a recent meeting of the American Animal Hospital Association "We are only now beginning to appreciate the nature and scope of companionship as a major role of animals in our society" he said Americans spend over S39 billion dollars on their pets or nearly $19 for every person in the country he added “Pets definitely have an effect on longevity" said Beck quoting a study of heart attack patients The study showed 94 percent who owned pets survived while only 62 percent of those who did not own pets lived Beck said everyone talks about the loneliness of the elderly “and then they exclude pets from housing for the elderly the growing weight of evidence of pets’ tremendous therapeutic value with lone- Loneliness all by itself is a contributing factor in human mortality lonely people experience greater rates of disease in all ly older people “Lots of places are putting dogs cats and birds in old age homes" he said “You put a cat in an old age home and you get people to smiling" categories" There are reports of people who have seriously depressed died or committed suicide when they were separated from their pets he said “This is alarming when one considers that over 12 percent of former dog owners are forced to surrender their pets because they are no longer permitted to keep them in new housing projects for the become He said one study indicated residents in nursing homes often show increased ac- and communication when presented with a pet dog Beck said research with psychiatric suffering from depression showed a pet gave a patient an improvement in morale a decrease in the feeling tivity well-train- ed out-patien- ts elderly" He said the ban on pets in homes for the aged is beginning to change because of of hopelessness and isolation a feeling of security a feeling of being needed a source of companionship during illness distraction from problems and stimulation to be more physically active Good results have also been achieved by placing pets with autistic children and even with the criminally insane Among the latter Beck said the addition of pets “brought about a tremendous reduction in the number of fights among the inmates” He told of the experimental use of fish tanks at the University of Pennsylvania dental hospital waiting room Watching the fish was found to lower the patients’ blood pressure as effectively as medication Getting hit by lightning isn’t always a bad thing By UPI — “discovered” America our shores Science Digest had been visited by Phoenicians Druid priests who built Although doctors now routinely use electricity in the treatment of illness — pacemakers are one example natural electricity in the form of lightning can wreak havoc on the body to the tune of more than 15 million volts reports the May issue of Science Digest lightning can stop the heart in its tracks break bones by hurling a victim to the ground or by violently contracting his muscles and scorch a body inside and out The results are not always so bad however Edwin E Robinson was flattened by a bolt last June and was out for 20 minutes When he came to he could “hear like a kid" even though his hearing aid had been burnt out by the blast Although before practically blind and after his vision is now being bald for 35 years he sports a thick head of hair The tree under which he was standing when the bolt struck isn’t doing quite as well —it's dying momuments in Stonehengelike Vermont Libyans who traded with American Indians in New Mexico and Egyptians who sailed the Mississippi Fell bases these claims on stone tablets and carvings found throughout the United States which he and others have only recently translated “Ancient people came here for the same reasons as modern immigrants did" says Fell “to flee tyranny taxation and pogroms: to seek their fortunes” Inscriptions range from the religious and ceremonial to the more mundane 2000-year-o- ld Says one Phoenician tablet: “No Loitering" 20-2- 0 What if a single atom could be held virtually motionless so that only the movement of its electrons remained? 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