Monday, October 26, 2009

Surprising Antiagers(Embrace Your Age)

Feeling Good about growing Older may help you live longer. When Yale University Researchers studied the morality rates of 660 seniors who had been paricipating in the Ohio Longitudinal study of Aging and Retirement, those who started out two decades earlier in the study with a positive attitude toward old age ended up living an average of seven and a half years longer than others, says study coauthor Becca R. Levy, PhD, an associate Professor at Yale school of Public Health. The Study subjects who refused to buy into negative cultural stereotypes about aging when they were younger tended to have greater enthusiasm about life when they grew Older.

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