General•Reuters: Happiness Makes for a Happy Heart

• • sepslugseven
  • February 17
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  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61H00K20100218

  LONDON (Reuters) - People who are usually happy and enthusiastic are less likely to develop heart disease than those who tend to be glum, scientists said on Thursday, and boosting positive emotions could help cut heart health risks.

  HEALTH | LIFESTYLE

  U.S. researchers said their observational study was the first to show an independent relationship between positive emotions and coronary heart disease, but stressed that more work was needed before any treatment recommendations could be made.

  "We desperately need rigorous clinical trials in this area. If the trials support our findings, then these results will be incredibly important in describing specifically what clinicians and/or patients could do to improve health," Karina Davidson of Columbia University Medical Center wrote in the study in the European Heart Journal.

• • aaron
  • February 17
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  This fits in with the Love Heals concept touted by Dr. Dean Shrock. This is much more in a preventative sense.

• • sepslugseven
  • February 17
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  Yeah it's pretty awesome verification of what the LOVEolution is all about I think.

• • Justin
  • February 18
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  Awesome...another case of science proving what we already know to be true

• • sepslugseven
  • February 18
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  The end of a debate, resulting in the beginning of a new one, is the definition of progress.