OPTIMISTS MAY HAVE LONGER LIVES...

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OPTIMISTS MAY HAVE LONGER LIVES...

Saturday, 23 December 2006, 4:34 a.m.

 

Optimists may enjoy longer lives than people with a dimmer outlook on the

future, a long-term study suggests.

Researchers found that of nearly 7,000 adults followed since their college

days in the 1960s, those who were optimistic in their youth had a lower risk

of dying over the next 40 years than their more pessimistic peers.

On average, the most pessimistic study participants were 42 percent more

likely to die of any cause than the most positive participants, according to

findings published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings medical journal.

The results echo those of a number of past studies on personality factors

and health, including research that has linked optimism to longer life. One

study of elderly adults found that those with a positive view of the future

were less likely than pessimists to die over the next decade -- regardless

of their health at the start of the study.

*SNIP*

http://news./s/nm/20061222/hl_nm/optimists_dc

 

Perhaps for pessimists it just seems longer!!!!!