Thursday, December 8, 2011

Positive thinking is linked to good health and longevity

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Supports the science now seems optimistic view that focus on the cup half full, rather than to say that half empty.

And concluded a review of more than 160 study on the link between positive thinking and public health and longevity to the existence of "evidence of clear and compelling" that the happy enjoy better health and live longer.

The review, published in the journal "Applied Psychology: Health and Happiness" that the evidence linking optimism and enjoy life, and the health and longevity, are stronger than those between obesity and short life.

Said Ed Diener, a professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Illinois, who led the review, "I was amazed to the strength of the data."

In spite of the Diner said that there is a lack of studies talking about the opposite, but "the vast majority ... support the view that happiness linked to health and longevity."

In the research laboratory proved to be positive thinking reduces stress-related hormones and strengthens the immune system and helps the heart to recover after any effort.

It also proved that the animals that live in crowded cages declines with the immune system and become more vulnerable to heart disease and die at a young age.

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