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May
1, 2006:
What Determines How Long You Live?
Interview
with Norman Anderson, PhD, author of Emotional
Longevity
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Mike
Carruthers:
You certainly know that how you eat and exercise and live your
life affects how long you live.
Norman Anderson PhD:
We have also discovered in recent years there are all these
other things that are important and the public needs to know about
these things.
Dr. Norman Anderson, author of the book, Emotional
Longevity What Really Determines How Long You Live…
People who have a confidant or have a close family or friendship
network tend to live longer than people who don't. People who
are able to maintain an optimistic attitude tend to live longer
and have fewer health problems than those who are more pessimistic.
Of course if you're a pessimistic person you can't simply change
and become an optimist.
What we want pessimists to do in a first step is to become
more realistic about their future. In fact we don't know what's
going to happen in the future. The fact is because we don't know
what's going to happen in the future, how about just being neutral
about it rather than being negative about it. That's a big step
for pessimists.
And getting back to the idea of social connection, no one really
knows exactly why it is, but Dr. Anderson says studies prove that
having friends is good medicine.
Even among patients who have diagnosed heart disease, those
with more social connections actually have arteries that are not
as clogged as those with fewer social relationships.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net.
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's "Something You Should Know."
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