(The West Australian) Don't worry, be happy, live longer. Happiness protects the heart.
[A] study compared people who tend to express positive emotions - or "positive affect" - with people who tend to express negative emotions. It concluded that happier people were far less likely to develop heart disease, and that this protection extended to generally positive people who might feel depressed at times.
Lead researcher Karina Davidson of Columbia University Medical Centre in New York said the results might be due to factors such as happier people tended to get more sleep; were less inclined to smoke; and exercised more often - all of which leads to lower heart rates.
They also might have less stress in their lives and spent less time reliving the stress that they did confront, she said.
Ms Davidson suggests that even a 15- to 20-minute dose of daily happiness might improve people's health.
That doesn't mean you have to pretend you're on a paid holiday. It's the little things that make us truly happy, including reading, walking, working in the garden, scrapbooking or anything else that brings you joy.
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