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Here are just a few excerpts from
the delightful pages of
Live a Little—Laugh a Lot
 Historical highlight. In an 1879 textbook, an American
gynecologist advised girls to “spend the year before and the
two years after puberty at rest.” In addition, each menstrual
period should be endured in the “recumbent position” until the
girls’ systems could adjust to the “new order of life.”
Another medical specialist wrote that excessive exercise by
women would have a negative effect on the “genital organs, for
they tend to decay.”
In the morning.
Serum testosterone
levels are one-third higher in the
morning than in the afternoon.
Do
imbalances in body chemistry result in
violence in young men?
Copper
and zinc may be the keys to
suppressing violence in young men
according to a study in Physiology
and Behavior. Imbalances in body
chemistry, specifically and elevated
copper level and a depressed zinc
level are linked to behavior disorders
in some young men. The study, which
compared men with a history of
assaultive behavior to a control group
with no violent history, revealed that
the test group’s mean copper/zinc
ratio was statistically higher than
that of the control group. (Quantum
sufficit, Am Fam Phys 56(8); 1997)
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