Happiness prolongs life by about the same amount as the rejection of cigarettes. Reached the conclusion Dutch sociologist Ruut Veenhoven of Erasmus University Rotterdam. According to the researcher can not happiness be cured, but can be protected from the disease. Ruut Veenhoven analyzed 30 studies that relate to the state of happiness. It has long been the relationship between life expectancy and the state of happiness to see, but it was unclear whether the effect of happiness on longevity, or, on the contrary, increases the life of good health and happiness. Many scientists have tried to the cause-and-effect relationship, based on long-term studies to determine, having regard to the initial level of health, but the results were conflicting. Ruut Veenhoven, who has studied the problems of Fortune since 1960, evaluates the results of numerous studies and found that happiness does not extend the life of terminally ill persons, but also contributes to a long healthy life. Fortunately, she protects against disease. A possible explanation, a fact that depression causes stress, which reduces the level of immunity. In turn, luck has the opposite effect and strengthens the immune system, scientists say.
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