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Is it partly cloudy or partly sunny? If you live on the sunny side of life, you can increase the chances of having a healthy heart.
Even people, who are temporarily pessimistic, can increase their risks of dying of heart disease and other health problems. It has been common knowledge that depression will bring on all kinds of health problems. Now we know attitude plays a part in this as well. With a positive person when there is stress they look to the remedy, so the hormones that are released during stress that can negatively effect health are limited.
Source: New York Times
Tags: Heart disease, optimism, pessimism, stress