A Tribute to Our Soldiers of the 108th
We will keep this memorial on our newspaper website as a tribute
to our fallen soldiers until all of our troops come home from Iraq.
Carol Forsloff
Randy Stelly
to our fallen soldiers until all of our troops come home from Iraq.
Carol Forsloff
Randy Stelly
Lifestyles and General Interest
The Real Views
Easy Way to Avoid Going Gray
Science gives a way to keep the color in your hair
Perhaps the easiest way to avoid going gray is to reduce the stress
levels in your life. Going gray is something lots of people want to
prevent. Just how does that work?
We have all heard someone say he or she is going gray because of
stress. Science supports this, so in our relationships and our attitudes,
changing our perceptions of things can make a difference in going gray
early. Science says certain types of environmental stresses, as well as
how we interpret our particular life events, may impact what happens
to something like our hair.
Stress reduction exercises might be helpful in slowing the aging process
in many ways. It can help reduce the chances of heart attacks and
strokes as well as other diseases related to worry and tension. Perhaps
scientist’s findings about hair color might help people by giving a tangible
signal there is too much stress in their lives. Reducing it is done through
attitude, exercise, and knowledge of the harm stress can cause, with
hair color being a minor example, but nevertheless revealing in its way
of telling us when we have had too much. This may be part of the way
the body signals that stress can cause premature aging. At least that’s
the conclusion that comes from science about the relationship between
how we respond to life events and the effect of the responses on our
bodies in different areas and in different ways.
The complicated processes about chemical reactions is explained in
detail in a study in the June 12 issue of Cell magazine that maintains
graying hair comes about because of stress. The type of stress is
“genotoxic stress” that does damage to DNA. Those things that
interfere with the development of stress might impede the graying
process, according to science researchers.
The process known as Ataxia-telangiectasia, an aging syndrome caused
by a mutation in the ATM gene, is premature graying. In February
another scientific study found graying occurs as a result of a chemical
reaction which causes hair to bleach itself and become devoid of color.
Going gray begins at about age 30 for men and 35 for women because
of stress hormones. Research has actually found that older people who
are particularly stressed turn gray sooner.
What can we do to avoid getting gray hair? When we say, “You’re
causing me gray hair,” the truth may be the way you interpret events
may have something to do with going gray. The solution: change your
attitude about events and see life’s glass half full. That helps maintain
both a youthful attitude and a younger look as well with healthy, colorful
hair.