Study shows that a happier and satisfied life can lead to lower risk of heart disease

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno nonmigratory Jerome Cooper says staying engaged and progressive makes him happy.

"Walk to the store, thrust the bike, play a small basketball, enactment connected the car, and worldly similar that," said Cooper, "Just moving around."

While beingness has gotten a small busy, Jerome prefers an progressive routine.

Experts accidental an progressive manner tin pb to a blessed heart.

"That means not lone being blessed but besides being contented with your life," said Dr. Glenn Levine, a prof of Medicine astatine Baylor College.

A caller survey published successful the Journal of the American Heart Association examined the wellness records of implicit 120,000 radical and analyzed the transportation betwixt respective bosom diseases.

It recovered those who consciousness contented oregon satisfied successful their lives are little apt to make bosom illness oregon stroke.

Dr. Levine explains that it's inactive definitively hard to accidental if happiness does origin amended health.

"You tin bash immoderate blase statistical analyses similar they bash successful this paper," said Dr. Levine. "As champion 1 tin easiness retired that it seems that radical who are happier and much content, and person a consciousness of purpose. Really, the things that are cardinal to wellness."

The survey besides recovered that radical with a higher consciousness of well-being had a 10% to 21% little hazard of processing bosom disease.

Dr. Levine says that our intelligence wellness besides plays a role.

"Would talking to a intelligence wellness nonrecreational adjacent assistance amended their happiness and grade of wellness," said Dr. Levine.

Dr. Levine believes that yet a consciousness of intent helps stress the positives successful our lives.

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