Afraid or pessimistic? You will live longer!
Stop seeing life in pink to live longer
If previous studies claimed that to live longer and health, be optimistic was the only solution, other works seem to say everything to do the opposite ...
As in this study, conducted by German researchers and published in the scientific journal Psychology and Aging.
Professor Frieder R. Lang, a researcher at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberf (Germany), and his team, ensure that seeing the future in a gloomy way would have a positive effect on health!
By analyzing the way in which the future of 10,000 people aged between 18 and 96 is viewed by Professor Frieder R. Lang, it has been observed that, depending on the age, it is more common to to be more or less optimistic. Young adults, for example, expected their lives to improve over the years and gradually bring them greater satisfaction and overestimate what could be expected in the next five years.
Whereas older people on the panel were more pessimistic about their future, and underestimated the quality of their future life over the next 5 years.
But comparing the results obtained, the authors of the study can only note that underestimating the quality of his future life, as do older people, is associated with the maintenance of good health ...
How does anger preserve our health?
And according to a publication on the BBC website, anger could even be a good way to stay healthy!
This is what Prof. Matthijs Baas of the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) assured in a series of works published a few years ago. By angering some volunteers who had the mission to write the story of an event that had angered them, and then opposing them in a game that appealed to their creativity, the specialist then observed that the people most "in anger "during this exercise had been more creative ... He thus deduced that" anger really prepares the body to mobilize resources - it signals you that the situation you are in is bad and gives you an energetic boost to get out of it, "explained Matthijs Baas.
We could therefore imagine that under the influence of anger, bad mood, the body is better prepared and has more resources to defend itself, in case of weakened immune system, morale to zero ...
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