Happiness Doesn’t Bring Good Health, Study Finds

NEW YORK TIMES: Go ahead and sulk. Unhappiness won’t kill you.

A study published on Wednesday in The Lancet, following one million middle-aged women in Britain for 10 years, finds that the widely held view that happiness enhances health and longevity is unfounded.

“Happiness and related measures of well-being do not appear to have any direct effect on mortality,” the researchers concluded… (more)

EDITOR: At least one dies happy!

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