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A Smile a Day Keeps the Doctor Away?

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If you keep upbeat, do you really live longer?

A new study by the University of Pittsburgh offers a tantalizing hint. After looking at a population sample of women aged 50 and over, researchers have concluded that there is some kind of link between people with cheery attitudes, and those with higher longevity and resistance to diseases and health disorders.

Okay. Perhaps you’d now like to join one of two queues that are busily forming. The first is the “Well, Duh” queue, occupied by everyone who takes a wry view …

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If You're Happy and You Know It, Thank Your Friends

You know, I really have to chuckle when science comes up with well-researched conclusions that most of us have already known all along. Here’s the latest: having happy friends can make you happy. In an extensive 20-year study, Harvard Medical School and UCSD researchers concluded that happiness is contagious but sadness isn’t.

What was really interesting about the study, though, is that they found a holographic effect with happiness. If something makes you happy, your friends, who may not even be around, have a higher chance of feeling happy, …

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