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Happiness, loosely defined as satisfaction and appreciation for one's life, is a psychological equivalent of vitamin C. It helps to protect against the negative effects of stress, safeguarding people from becoming sick. Not only are happy people less likely to send out surges of stress hormones that contribute to heart disease, but they're also more likely to follow good self-care and have better social networks—both reliable indicators of good physical health.

Perhaps one of hte most convincing studies linking happiness to longevity is based on a group of nuns. Each nun was asked to write an autobiographical sketch upon their acceptance into the convent. Sixty years later, the content of those autobiographies proved to be surprisingly storng indicators of whether the author was still alive and how healthy she was. Despite their similar habits, some of the nuns experienced long, illness-free lives, while others succumbed to death at an early age. It turns out that those nuns who had expressed the most positive emotions in their journals were the same ones who were still around. A full 90 percent of the most cheerful nuns were still alive at age 85, while only 34 percent of the least cheerful were. 

  

 

 

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