Washington Post wrote about it so it's definately going either give cause for concern to people who say they aren't going to take care of themselves, they are on the 50 year plan Or they might get scared and rethink the way they look at life.
that's the opposite of the placebo effect; the mind doesn't fool
itself into feeling better, it fools itself into dying. People get
worse because they think they'll get worse. Doctors have many cases.
In 1974 a man in Nashville was treated for cancer of the esophagus,
considered fatal back then. He died a few weeks later. But an autopsy
revealed that his esophagus was fine. He had a few cancerous spots on
his liver, and one on his lung, but not enough to kill him. "He died
with cancer but not from cancer." In the Framingham Heart Study,
begun in 1948, women who believed they were prone to heart disease
were nearly 4x to die form heart disease.
here's the link to the Post article.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A2709-2002Apr29
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