No matter where you work or what you do, chances are you will feel the most stressed on Tuesdays. And if you want to be even more specific, the stress will peak at 11:45am. That’s the word from researchers at Clasado Ltd., the U.K. company that makes the health supplement Bimuno. Conventional wisdom maintains that Monday is the most stress-filled day. But most workers coast through Monday, spending the day getting their brain in gear and catching up with gossip from the weekend through social networking sites. 53% of those polled admitted they don’t do much work on Monday, and 10% said they spend a lot of this work day on Facebook and Twitter.

Have a great long weekend!
Lou-Anne

Music can make your heart soar, says researchers. Ten men and women spent 30 minutes listening to music they selected and enjoyed, and another half hour listening to anxiety producing tunes while their blood vessel function was measured. Blood vessel diameter expanded 26% when the volunteers listened to their favorite music but narrowed by 6% while listening to music that caused anxiety. A wider vessel means blood flows more smoothly with less likelihood of heart attack or stroke. “These results were music to my ears,” says Dr. Michael Miller, who headed the University of Maryland Medical Center study. “They signal another preventive strategy that we may incorporate in our daily lives to promote heart health.” .. another brilliant reason to listen to EZRock! ; )

See ya in the morning,
Lou-Anne

If you need to mail a letter in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, you don’t have much time. The hours at the Sugar Hill Post Office have been cut dramatically — to only 30 minutes a day! No kidding. The post office is now open from 10:15 to 10:45 each morning. New Hampshire’s two U.S. senators have written a letter urging the U.S. Postal Service to hold a community meeting in the northern New Hampshire town so that residents, government officials and business owners can ask questions and offer their thoughts on the future of retail postal service there.

See ya in the morning,
Lou-Anne

If you’re a woman, keeping your lips zipped during fights with your husband can be a killer. A 10-year study found that women who forced themselves to keep their mouths shut during arguments were four times more likely to die during the study period than those who expressed themselves freely. “Self silencing” women also had higher rates of depression and irritable bowel syndrome, according to Elaine Eaker, Sc.D., of Gaithersburg, Maryland, who headed the study.

See ya in the morning,
Lou-Anne

A survey by Waterpik reveals that women spend an average of 14 minutes a day in the shower. Men spend an average of 12. Other findings:

- while showering, women think most about chores, problems and weight while men think about sex and/or work

- 25% of people sing in the shower on a regular basis

- 45% of people would rather pay bills than clean their shower

-100% of people listen to EZRock in the shower

Ok, I might have thrown in that last one ; )

See ya in the morning,
Lou-Anne

Bulgaria’s history museum plans to display a “vampire” skeleton next week after unearthing the 700-year-old remains of two men stabbed through the chest with iron rods. Archaeologists found the bizarre corpses while excavating a monastery near the Black Sea city of Sozopol. The skeletons were buried in a pagan ritual that they said was aimed at keeping the men from turning into vampires. National History Museum head Bozhidar Dimitrov said, “This was a pagan belief widespread in the Bulgarian lands in the 12th to 14th centuries. People were very superstitious the.” The Balkan country, which remained pagan until it embraced Christianity in the ninth century, borders Romania — birthplace of the notorious 15th century ruler, Vlad Tepes, or Vlad the Impaler was no vampire, but his cruelty and name inspired the fictional Dracula created by novelist Bram Stoker. (Reuters) Sounds like Buffy the Vampire Slayer was on the job ..

See ya in the morning,
Lou-Anne

Only “lazy” people will get a jolt from coffee, says a shocking new study the stuff actually turns motivated go-getters into slackers. The research at the University of British Columbia’s Department of Psychology discovered that stimulants, including caffeine and amphetamines, do not raise motivation levels. For the paper published in Nature’s Neuropsychopharmacology, scientist found that coffee made “busy” rats less active, and turned “lazy” ones into energetic ones. When given stimulants, the “slacker” rats that typically avoided challenges worked significantly harder, while “worker” rats that usually embraced challenges were less motivated after having caffeine or amphetamines. “Every day, millions of people use stimulants to wake up, stay alert and increase productivity from truckers driving all night to students cramming for exams,” says study leader Jay Hosking. “These findings suggest that some stimulants have an opposite effect for people who naturally favor the difficult tasks of life that come with greater rewards.” (National Examiner) .. yeah, yeah, whatever .. just give me my Timmy’s!

See ya in the morning,
Lou-Anne

Losing a love is like kicking a drug habit you go through withdrawal. And guess what? To deal with the loss, women tend to turn to comfort food like wine and chocolate…no, really!? Researchers studying brain activity in women found that love mirrors addiction cravings. And when that love is no longer there, the void needs to be filled, in many cases, by stuffing the mouth with favorite treats. “Romantic love, under both happy and unhappy circumstances, may be a ‘natural’ addiction,” says study co-author Dr. Lucy Brown, a neurology professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York. “Our findings suggest that the pain of romantic rejection may be a necessary part of life that nature built into our anatomy and psychology.” But for the lovelorn, there is still hope. Adds Brown: “A natural recovery, to pair up with someone else, is in our psychology, too.”

See ya Monday morning,
Lou-Anne

Forget being proud of your kid at high school graduation in Cincinnati. Anthony Cornist’s suburban Cincinnati high school is withholding his diploma and requiring community service as punishment — because his family cheered too loud at the graduation ceremony. Mount Healthy City Schools Superintendent Lori Handler — a.k.a. Miss Crabby Pants — said families agree to avoid ceremony disruptions and that it’s unfair to others who want to hear their students’ names called. However, Anthony’s mother, Traci Cornist, says the cheering wasn’t unusually loud or disruptive and is outraged her son is being punished. The school says he has legally graduated, but it’s requiring 20 hours of community service by him or his family before handing over his diploma.

See ya in the morning,
Lou-Anne

The next time you run into your grocery store and grab a cart, beware. The handle of that shopping cart could very well be coated in E. coli bacteria or fecal bacteria. A team led by University of Arizona microbiology professor Dr. Charles Gerba swabbed 85 grocery cart handles in four states looking for bacterial contamination. They found that 72% harbored fecal bacteria, and upon closer examination, 50% had E. coli bacteria, as well as a host of other germs. Previous research has shown that children who ride in shopping carts are more likely than others to develop infections caused by salmonella and campylobacter.

See ya in the morning,
Lou-Anne