[Capriole]

How about stress? We certainly have plenty of it, and perhaps breast cancer is particularly sensitive to it.

Do you really think we have more stress today? Our stresses are very minor: are we going to get that promotion, be able to finance that new house, get the kids into college, etc. The stresses of the past, or in undeveloped countries today, were far more serious: is that evil warlord going to put my son's eyes out, burn my village, rape me, and torture my husband to death; are the Arabs going to sell me into slavery; is the crop going to fail so that we all starve to death; is a monsoon going to drown me and a half-million of my countrymen; are the wolves going to eat my kids. Different order of magnitude altogether!

[spetznaz]

As i explained in my post it is not the high stress levels that are important but the continuous stress levels. In days of yore stress was existent. It is still there in the 3rd world. But it is here in the developed world that a person wakes up stressed, goes through the day stressed, and goes to bed stressed.

Most people are under constant stress. And it is the perpetuality of it, not necessarily the magnitude, that is dangerous. It has actually been shown that constant stress is an almost certain harbinger of disease.

[maine-iac7]

great argument = right on the money.

we humans always seem to think that just OUR time has the worst stress - and every generation thinks that.

I'm happy to be here, now, and, thank you God, in America.