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       Pets May Be Good for Your Health
       By: Kerry Date: December 16, 2014, 8:31 am
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       It's fairly well accepted that pets are good for our mental
       health; but now studies are showing they might be beneficial to
       our physical health too.    From the Washington Post
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       The benefits of animal-human interactions may extend to physical
       health, too. In May of 2013, the American Heart Association
       released a statement concluding that pet ownership is “probably
       associated with decreased cardiovascular disease risk.”
       “If you look at people with and without pets, those with pets
       tend to be healthier heart-wise,” says Glenn Levine, a
       cardiologist at Baylor College of Medicine who was on the
       committee that wrote the AHA statement. Studies that Levine’s
       group assessed included ones finding that pet owners have lower
       blood pressure, lower resting heart rates and less risk of
       hypertension than people without pets. What’s not clear, he
       says, is whether having a pet makes people healthier or if it’s
       just that healthier people are more likely to own a pet. “The
       evidence that it’s a causal relationship is not as strong,”
       Levine says.
       Studies show that if you subject people to a stressful situation
       with a dog in the room, they have smaller increases in heart
       rate, blood pressure, adrenaline and other stress-related
       factors than if there is no pet present, Levine says, but the
       mechanisms for most of these associations remain unknown.
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       Re: Pets May Be Good for Your Health
       By: James Date: December 18, 2014, 3:58 pm
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       I did read a conclusion some time ago that a person with a fast
       heart rate could be brought into a restful situation just by
       stroking a cat, the non cat lovers could use dogs I suspect.
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