Negative emotions can be deadly to your health

Based on a study of some 7,000 adults whose health had been tracked since their college days in the 1960s at the University of North Carolina, the most pessimistic students polled were 42 percent more prone to die over the next four decades that their peers who were the most positive.

Even though personality tests taken at the time showed most students scored somewhere in the middle between optimism and negativity, almost twice as many patients were judged to be pessimists (1,630) than optimists (923).

Source: Yahoo News December 22, 2006

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