Study: Optimists Live Longer

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10 Nov 2005, 11:29 am

Study: Optimists Live Longer
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology ... heart.html
By Robert Roy Britt
LiveScience Senior Writer
posted: 1 November 2004
4:00 p.m. ET

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10 Nov 2005, 12:25 pm

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10 Nov 2005, 4:02 pm

In otherwords, cr-p is the staple of a healthy diet.

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10 Nov 2005, 4:06 pm

*keeps on smilin'*

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10 Nov 2005, 5:22 pm

bah, optimists don't get the best laughs. you can be cynical and wish for the world to end and laugh your ass off.

but anyways, who even wants to live more than they have to on this crummy little planet? i smoke because i'm not even gonna give cancer a chance to get me. life just gets crappier and crappier once you start to get all wrinkly and shite, better to find an exit door in time.

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10 Nov 2005, 5:51 pm

great. One moe thing to feel crappy about

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10 Nov 2005, 5:55 pm

TheBladeRoden wrote:

great. One moe thing to feel crappy about

Doesnt it just make you feel pesstimistic to know that optimists live longer.

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10 Nov 2005, 5:59 pm

SquanderedPotential wrote:

but anyways, who even wants to live more than they have to on this crummy little planet?

I do. I wish I could live 300-500 years. There's so much I wanna do. (Oops, sorry. That's my optimism showing through :oops:

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10 Nov 2005, 7:39 pm

aspergian_mutant wrote:

Study: Optimists Live Longer

*Raises and eyebrow at AM* Studies have also shown that right-handed people live longer than left-handed people. :roll:

Besides, being pessimistic and cynical is fun! :twisted:

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10 Nov 2005, 9:28 pm

Optimists may live longer chronologically, but I bet life SEEMS longer for the pessimists.

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11 Nov 2005, 1:08 pm

got that right Serissa!

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11 Nov 2005, 1:32 pm

i try to stay possitive as much as possible, even on my bad days. and its nothing new that optimist live longer, pessimistic people always have bad health because of stress.

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