Poor Health Outlook for Pessimists

August 31, 2002

Talk about a study that zeros in on the BodyMind connection! The article

below is from the Dr. Joe Mercola site. If you have an interest in also

finding related information, you can visit

Pessimists tend to have worse health over the long-term than their positive

peers. Or, put more positively, optimists tend to have better health over the

long-term than their negative peers.

That is the conclusion in the second of a series of studies: the first part

of the series found that positive people generally live longer than their

negative peers.

Nearly 500 people were first evaluated between 1962 and 1965 for the study,

and found that 100 were optimistic, 75 pessimistic, and 275 had a mix of

attitudes toward life. Thirty years later the researchers reevaluated them

again, and found the pessimistic patients had lower ratings in all tested

areas of health than the optimists and those with a mix of attitudes.

& dopt=Abstract " >Mayo Clinic Proceedings</A> 2002;77:748-753

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Rich Putman in Minnesota

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