Harvard Mental Health Letter articles from February 2003

Harvard Mental Health Letter archives from February 2003

Anorexia nervosa - Part I.
February 1, 2003... How the mind starves the body, and what can be done to prevent it It usually starts with a diet. A teenage girl or young woman begins to eat less and less. She skips meals or takes only tiny portions, often avoiding all but a few kinds of...

Diet and Alzheimer's disease.
February 1, 2003... Is Alzheimer's disease the product of genetic fate, or can we do anything to prevent it in daily life? Answers may be emerging in studies of the links between diet, cardiovascular disease, and dementia. Survey after survey has suggested...

In Brief - Disturbing news: Journalistic trauma.
February 1, 2003... A survey reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry provides some data on a subject to which literary eloquence but no systematic research has been devoted: the psychological health of war correspondents. The report indicates that they...

In Brief - Bossed to death?
February 1, 2003... A job that provides little opportunity for choice may shorten your life. That's the main finding of a 25-year study of nearly 3,000 workers funded by the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and...