Yet
another study suggests that happiness is good for your health.
Epidemiologists at University College, London, examined data collected
by the English Longitudinal Study of Aging, a large survey in England. A
subset of people, ages 52 to 79, were asked to record the extent to
which they felt happy, excited, content, worried, anxious and fearful on
a 1 to 4 scale at four times during the day: upon waking, 30 minutes
after waking, at 7 p.m. and again upon going to bed. Five years later
they found that happy people live 35% longer.
