英语阅读：心态年轻的人更长寿精品

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People who feel younger than their actual chronological1 age may live longer than those who feel older than they truly are, a new study says.
一项新的研究称，那些自我感觉比实际年龄小的人可能比那些自我感觉比实际年龄大的人更加长寿。

Perceived age might play a role in more than just how you feel. Results from the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggest that people who feel a year or more older than they truly are could have around 41 percent greater risk for death.
University College London researchers looked at nearly 6,500 older adults, with an average age of 65.8 for the study. Around 70 percent of the subjects felt younger than they were, about a quarter felt their precise age and just under 5 percent felt a year or more older than they were, when asked "How old do you feel you are?"
Those who felt older than they were had a higher death rate after a follow-up period of 99 months. While just 14.3 and 18.5 percent of people who felt younger or felt their age, respectively, died during those 99 months, 24.6 percent of those who felt aged2 beyond their years had died.
The authors say more research is needed on the topic, but suggest it could be that those who feel "young at heart" have healthier behaviors and more resilience, giving them a stronger will to live. "Self-perceived age has the potential to change, so interventions3 may be possible. Individuals who feel older than their actual age could be targeted with health messages promoting positive health behaviors and attitudes toward aging," the authors write in the study.
The good news is, youcanchange your perception of howyoungyou are. And other studies suggest that there could be more benefits to thinking yourself younger, besides a longer life. One recent study found that helping4 participants have positive feelings toward age, by showing them positive word associations, helped older adults improve in physical tasks like balancing and getting up out of a chair, in as little as four weeks. A 2013 study found that negative stereotypes5 of aging and poor memory can make older adults feel up to five years older, regardless of their actual mental abilities.
There you have it. Age really should be treated as just a number.
词汇解析：
1 chronological
adj.按年月顺序排列的，年代学的
参考例句：
The paintings are exhibited in chronological sequence.这些画是按创作的时间顺序展出的。

Give me the dates in chronological order.把日期按年月顺序给我。

2 aged
adj.年老的，陈年的
参考例句：
He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了，也老点了。

He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老，然而记忆力还好。

3 interventions
n.介入，干涉，干预( intervention的名词复数 )
参考例句：
Economic analysis of government interventions deserves detailed discussion. 政府对经济的干预应该给予充分的论述。

来自辞典例句
The judge's frequent interventions made a mockery of justice. 法官的屡屡干预是对正义的践踏。

来自互联网
4 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的
参考例句：
The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。

By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

5 stereotypes
n.老套，模式化的见解，有老一套固定想法的人( stereotype的名词复数 )v.把…模式化，使成陈规( stereotype的第三人称单数 )
参考例句：
Such jokes tend to reinforce racial stereotypes. 这样的笑话容易渲染种族偏见。

It makes me sick to read over such stereotypes devoid of content. 这种空洞无物的八股调，我看了就讨厌。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
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