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Stress has been linked to negative health consequences from asthma to heart disease.

Can stress be our friend instead of our enemy?

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.

We've heard that stress is bad for our health. It can trigger asthma, alter our immune system, and perhaps even increase our risk of developing cancer. We've been encouraged to practice stress reduction. But what if, instead of fighting stress, we learned how to make it our ally? Dr. Kelly McGonigal is a psychologist who has turned stress on its head. She maintains that handled properly, stress can help us perform better in challenging situations.

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, the upside of stress.

Why stress is good for you and how to get good at it.

First, this news.

In the P's pharmacy health headlines, butter should no longer be demonized.

That's the conclusion of a new study from researchers at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.

The investigators reviewed nine studies,

with more than 600,000 subjects in 15 countries. They were able to assess butter consumption,

which ranged from about one-third of a tablespoon to roughly three tablespoons daily. They also

analyzed the data to see whether butter increased the risk of cardiovascular

disease, diabetes, or death. Perhaps surprisingly, there was no association between butter

consumption and heart disease. If anything, butter seemed to reduce the risk of diabetes

marginally. We can't make cause and effect inferences from this analysis.

It does suggest that butter might be more neutral in its consequences for health than its

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