The Cheerful Lexicon of the Spanish Language May Help Solve a Health Mystery Called the Hispanic Paradox
“Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides." — Rita Mae Brown
If you’re bilingual or ever had to “code switch” based on your social context, you know Rita is right. This isn't just about swapping words; it's about inhabiting a completely different reality. This phenomenon, which linguists call the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis or "
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Quelque grande que soit l’influence de la santé sur cette gaieté si essentielle à notre bonheur, néanmoins celle-ci ne dépend pas uniquement de la première, car, avec une santé parfaite, on peut avoir un tempérament mélancolique et une disposition prédominante à la tristesse. La cause en réside certainement dans la constitution originaire, par cons
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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
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