Pharmacy Daily | Dispensary Corner 05 Dec 13

Snow sports can be great for both physical and mental health - but according to a new study, skiers gain significantly more pleasure from the activity than snowboarders. Sports psychologists from Florida State University in the USA and Korea’s Yonsei University questioned 279 skiers and boarders at three different ski resorts in South Korea about how they felt while on the slopes. Skier responses were found to show about five times higher levels of “pleasure and involvement” compared to people who snowboarded or did both skiing and boarding. The researchers said that the findings may be because skiers are more “immersed in their activity” than snowboarders, with the flow as they glide down the slopes leading to increased satisfaction. However it’s also possible that snowboarders are more laid back and so had a tendency to downplay their enthusiasm when questioned for the survey. Paracetamol-laced dead mice have been dropped over a US Air Force base in Guam, as part of a campaign to eradicate a snake infestation. About 2,000 of the deceased rodents with cardboard parachutes were thrown out of a helicopter, in the hope that poisonous brown snakes will eat them and then die of an overdose. The snakes are apparently causing harm to exotic native birds as well as interfering with the island’s power grid.

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