{"id":929,"date":"2009-08-11T07:55:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T07:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=929"},"modified":"2009-08-11T07:55:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T07:55:25","slug":"a-positive-perspective-helps-you-live-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/a-positive-perspective-helps-you-live-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"A positive perspective helps you live longer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another scientific study has been released that shows that a positive outlook on life significantly lengthens life expectancy.\u00a0 Even controlling for other factors, being positive has a 10% to 15% beneficial impact.\u00a0 A positive outlook on life has additional benefits because it tends to help a lifestyle of more exercise and better eating.<\/p>\n<p>BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/8193180.stm\">Optimistic women live for longer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And from March 2006, BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/4759524.stm\">Optimists &#8216;have less heart risk&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another scientific study has been released that shows that a positive outlook on life significantly lengthens life expectancy.\u00a0 Even controlling for other factors, being positive has a 10% to 15% beneficial impact.\u00a0 A positive outlook on life has additional benefits because it tends to help a lifestyle of more exercise and better eating. BBC: Optimistic &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/a-positive-perspective-helps-you-live-longer\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A positive perspective helps you live longer.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-eZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}