Pets Provide Health Benefits
Owning a pet can significantly reduce your health risk. Dogs and Cats as pets are significant factors in people recovering from a heart attack and maintaining good health. People who have animals have lower blood pressure and lower cholesterol – and therefore lower risk of heart attack.
Another study, conducted at the University of Minnesota concluded that cat owners were 40% less likely to suffer a fatal heart attach than people who didn’t have a cat.
This month a study by researchers from Stanford University and the University of California found that regular exposure to a cat or a dog could reduce one’s chance of developing non-Hopkins lymphoma. It is thought that exposures to allergens from cats and dogs – could boost the immune system.
Pets are particularly useful for children. "Pets can become like a therapist, for want of a better word. If children are bullied at school, or their parents are getting divorced, children will often tell their pets their problems whereas they wouldn't always talk to a person."
Primary school children aged from five to seven that were from pet-owning households attended school for three weeks more than those who didn't. Children brought up with pets have more stable immune systems. There have been other studies which suggest that children born into a household that already has a dog or a cat are less likely to develop asthma.
Dogs can be trained to warn owners with Type 1 diabetes of an impending hypoglycemic, or low blood sugar, episode - they usually alert their owners by jumping up. "We don't know exactly how the dogs do it, but again they pick up on scent because they sniff the person before deciding whether to warn them or not. Because they also have a relationship with their owner, they may be able to pick up on other signs.
Ordinary household dogs can be trained to detect early *** and lung cancer between 88% and 97% of the time, by sniffing people's breath - it is thought that these particular cancer cells give off miniscule traces of volatile odors that dogs can smell.
There have been studies that have suggested pet owners are more likely to have higher self-worth and are less likely to suffer loneliness and depression. Dogs seem to bring people the biggest benefits - you have to get out and walk them every day, and they can act as a social catalyst.
We started taking dogs into nursing homes, because elderly people had had to give up their pets when they went in and it was making them depressed and in many cases ill.
The routine and "normality" of having a pet can help people suffering a traumatic event, such as bereavement or a diagnosis of terminal illness. People with animals to care for adjusted far better after the death of someone close than those without pets.
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