Can research on the genes of the very old thrivers and survivors discover secrets to help us all live a happy and healthy life? A new study of supercentenarians has just been published.
What does your health and happiness have to do with your money? It is not so much what we are hearing about expert decision-making, or about status and stress.
When choosing a career, finding the “perfect match” to your personality does not necessarily put you on a path toward thriving and long life. It was quite surprising to us what mattered more. The results were good news for career seekers.
Happiness is not the same thing as the pursuit of happiness. The secret is in the pursuit. Modern research on happiness confirms what Thomas Jefferson intuited.
Why do so many people say that they would not want to live beyond age 80 or 90? The answer points to the secret for being happy and healthy throughout life.
Do you feel proud when you put on your new jeans, style your hair, and eat your arugula while sipping Chardonnay? Can you eat to better health and happiness?
Feeling overwhelmed with work or homework? The message from the news is relax and don't so work hard, but that is a misreading of the research findings.
Want to be happy and healthy for 100 years? A 100-year-old man in a 90-year study shows a way to good health and happiness. It is a unique case of a lifetime study of unparalleled scope, and a physician-participant who lived through it.
Do you want someone cutting up your breast or prostate? There are other ways to think about the dilemma of medical tests like mammograms and P.S.A (prostate) tests.
Have you seen the lame pictures? Are the stresses of the presidency aging and weakening President Obama? Now that he is 50, what are his chances for a long life?
The self-healing personality and The Longevity Project
Howard S. Friedman, Ph.D., is a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside.
About Secrets of Longevity
How can we understand all the paradoxical health headlines? Put them into context. The usual piecemeal suggestions (relax, eat vegetables, lose weight, get married, do this, don't do that) are life-saving for some but neither effective nor economical for many. In fact, narrow medical advice often backfires, leaving us overweight and overstressed. As an alternative, our studies reveal that struggling with endless lists of specific health rules is unnecessary; instead the healthiest among us find broad pathways and patterns to better health.
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