The study, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that those who reported feeling happiest had a 35% reduced risk of dying compared with those who reported feeling least happy.
Full USA Today article here.
The thing that really disturbes me about this is that this appears to have been a funded study. Somebody(ies) got paid to find out that being miserable and depressed is worse for your health than being happy. Who knew?!?!?
Or healthy is happy? Although the article mentions that the study controlled for a number of factors including health, I have a strong feeling that the people who were studied could have been in good health in the first place, which is why they felt happy and lived longer.
I have to say; I’d definitely feel less happy if I was dying!
I would like to see someone study any possible role that the suprachiasmatic nucleus has with happiness.
“those who reported feeling happiest had a 35% reduced risk of dying compared with those who reported feeling least happy.” Hum, last time I checked, dying is running at 100%, haven’t seen anyone get out of here alive yet.