Optimism Is Associated With Exceptional Longevity in 2 Epidemiologic Cohorts of Men and Women
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Optimism Is Associated With Exceptional Longevity in 2 Epidemiologic Cohorts of Men and Women
People with an optimistic mindset are associated with various positive health indicators, particularly cardiovascular, but also pulmonary, metabolic, and immunologic. They have a lower incidence of age-related illnesses and reduced mortality levels. Optimism and pessimism are not arbitrary and elusive labels. On the contrary, they are mindsets that... See more
The new science of optimism and longevity
Optimists are normally cheerful and happy, and therefore popular; they are resilient in adapting to failures and hardships, their chances of clinical depression are reduced, their immune system is stronger, they take better care of their health, they feel healthier than others and are in fact likely to live longer.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
First of all, if optimism were a pill, we would take it. Optimism is related to fewer symptoms of depression and higher levels of wellbeing. Optimists are better at coping with adverse events, and deal with negative information more calmly. Ian Leslie
Book reading provides a survival advantage among the elderly (HR = 0.80, p < 0.0001).
A chapter a day: Association of book reading with longevity ...
A 20% reduction in mortality was observed for those who read books, compared to those who did not read books. Further, our analyses demonstrated that any level of book reading gave a significantly stronger survival advantage than reading periodicals. This is a novel finding (in both senses of the word), as previous studies did not compare types of... See more