NEW YORK-The lesson today: Be Merry is and live longer! One study of more than 160 studies on the relationship between positive condition of the brain and the entire state of health and longevity have been discovered "evidence is clear and urgent" that people are more happy to enjoy better health and live longer.
In fact, the evidence linking passionate appearance and enjoyment of life with better health and longer life turns out even stronger than the association of obesity with decreasing age, according to the study - which was broadcast on Tuesday (1 / 3) in the journal "Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. "
"I was almost surprised, and of course shocked, to see how consistency of these data," said Ed Diener, a retired professor of psychology at the University of Illinois, who directed the study.
The study examined eight different types of long-term studies and experiments on animal and human populations. For example, 5,000 students who studied for more than 40 years proved most of the students who pesismisti likely to die in a younger age.
In the laboratory, found a positive spirit to reduce the hormones associated with stress, enhance immune function and help the recovery of heart after the person doing the activity.
Animals that live in conditions of stress such as a crowded cages have immune system weaker and a higher susceptibility to heart disease, and die at a younger age compared with animals that are in the cage that was not too full of residents.
Diener states despite the current health decree focused on obesity, smoking, eating habits and exercise, "maybe it's time to put 'happy lah and avoid depression and chronic anger' on that list."