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Health and Happiness –Everyone’s Goal

A Healthy Life

A healthy lifestyle is one ingredient that will promote happiness but, happiness does not depend on that alone. Being healthy, and staying healthy, requires a level of discipline to avoid overindulgence. Eating the right foods and getting regular exercise are regarded as essentials for staying fit. A diet of fresh fruit and vegetables, coupled to a suitable intake of protein, will contribute to good health. Another essential is to drink an adequate amount of water each day to replace the natural loss of body fluids.

Happiness Improves Health and Lengthens Life, Review Finds

A review of more than 160 studies of human and animal subjects has found "clear and compelling evidence" that -- all else being equal -- happy people tend to live longer and experience better health than their unhappy peers.

The study, in the journal Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, is the most comprehensive review so far of the evidence linking happiness to health outcomes. Its lead author, University of Illinois professor emeritus of psychology Ed Diener, who also is a senior scientist for the Gallup Organization, of Princeton, N.J., analyzed long-term studies of human subjects, experimental human and animal trials, and studies that evaluate the health status of people stressed by natural events.

"We reviewed eight different types of studies," Diener said. "And the general conclusion from each type of study is that your subjective well-being -- that is,

feeling positive about your life, not stressed out, not depressed -- contributes to both longevity and better health among healthy populations."

A study that followed nearly 5,000 university students for more than 40 years, for example, found that those who were most pessimistic as students tended to die younger than their peers. An even longer-term study that followed 180 Catholic nuns from early adulthood to old age found that those who wrote positive autobiographies in their early 20s tended to outlive those who wrote more negative accounts of their young lives.

There were a few exceptions, but most of the long-term studies the researchers reviewed found that anxiety, depression, a lack of enjoyment of daily activities and pessimism all are associated with higher rates of disease and a shorter lifespan.

Animal studies also demonstrate a strong link between stress and poor health. Experiments in which animals receive the same care but differ in their stress levels (as a result of an abundance of nest mates in their cages, for example) have found that stressed animals are more susceptible to heart disease, have weaker immune systems and tend to die younger than those living in less crowded conditions.

Laboratory experiments on humans have found that positive moods reduce stress-related hormones, increase immune function and promote the speedy recovery of the heart after exertion. In other studies, marital conflicts and high hostility in married couples were associated with slow wound healing and a poorer immune response.

"I was almost shocked and certainly surprised to see the consistency of the data," Diener said. "All of these different kinds of studies point to the same conclusion: that health and then longevity in turn are influenced by our mood states."

While happiness might not by itself prevent or cure disease, the evidence that positive emotions and enjoyment of life contribute to better health and a longer lifespan is stronger than the data linking obesity to reduced longevity, Diener said.

"Happiness is no magic bullet," he said. "But the evidence is clear and compelling that it changes your odds of getting disease or dying young."

"Although there are a handful of studies that find opposite effects," Diener said, "the overwhelming majority of studies support the conclusion that happiness is associated with health and longevity. Current health recommendations focus on four things: avoid obesity, eat right, don't smoke, and exercise. It may be time to add 'be happy and avoid chronic anger and depression' to the list."

The desire for good health is universal. In our competitive society it is important to maintain good health. On the one hand, people with good health can do work with full confidence and their progress in work in turn contributes to their health and happiness. On the other hand, a sick person is usually not interested in everything around him and therefore he loses many opportunities to become successful.

Happiness And Health Are The Two Most Important Things In My life

The world is becoming obsessed with money and all things material. From the size of your house, the type of car and even where you travel on your holidays, some people are trying to go one better do their friends and family.

For me these people are quite sad. I have a friend who is similar to the people above, she is always thinking of money, always talking about money.

How to earn it, how to spend it efficiently and how to save it on a greatest degree..

To some extent, she is a workaholic .She goes to do part-time jobs when she doesn’t have a class on weekdays, let along weekends. I have no idea why she is crazy about earning so much money without having much time even to enjoy the sunshine. Once we talked about the question, she told me that she wants to reduce the burden on her parents, increase her work experience and travel with her own money. I admire her so much because she realizes the pressure on her parents and employment and she has her own idea for the future. Although she earns so much money, she is so tired both in physically and mentally. There is a potential threat to her health and she is not happy at all.

For me the two most important things in life are health and happiness. These are two things which money can not buy. during this summer vocation, my father became ill because of food poisoning. Even though it is no so serious, I felt my word was collapsing at the very moment. I feared the worst, even though I was trying my hardest to think and stay positive. I remembered I am thinking that if I could give those doctors everything I own in the world, it still would not help him. It occurred to my mother’s mind that she could give up everything as long as my father survived about ten years ago when my father suffered stomach trouble gravely. From that moment on,I recognized that parents are my biggest worries when I am away from

home. I phone my parents every week, if the don’t answer the phone, I will feel badly and have no mood to do anything.

Happiness is the same, at times I have had lots of cash in my back pocket, however have been quite depressed. At other times I have had next to no money and have been extremely happy. The happiest moment of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family---Thomas Jefferson