{"id":458307,"date":"2010-03-22T11:10:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f20\/happiness-no-match-heart-disease-41203\/"},"modified":"2010-03-22T11:10:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:10:06","slug":"happiness-is-no-match-for-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/458307","title":{"rendered":"Happiness is no match for heart disease"},"content":{"rendered":"
Happiness is no match for heart disease<\/b> <\/p>\n

Some researchers are claiming that happiness could cure heart disease. If only it were that easy… <\/p>\n

For most people, heart disease is the accumulation of a lifetime of bad habits. It’s something you earn — and no matter how jolly you are, if you’re fat, sick and diabetic you’ll stay that way until you take better care of yourself. And you can laugh yourself right into an early grave. <\/p>\n

Researchers looked at data on more than 1,700 Canadians from Nova Scotia who participated in a decade-long health survey. At the start of the study, each participant’s happiness was ranked on a five-point scale — as if your overall contentment can be measured like blood-sugar levels. <\/p>\n

Over the course of that decade, 145 of the participants developed heart disease, and those who ranked lowest on that happiness scale were far more likely to come down with the condition. <\/p>\n

The researchers also claim that each one-point boost on their arbitrary happiness scale lowered the risk for heart diseases by 22 percent, according to the study published in the European Heart Journal. <\/p>\n

I hate to burst the good feelings here, but this study flunks the common-sense test. I don’t care how big you smile or how loud you laugh — no amount of happiness in the world will undo the artery-clogging damage caused by a lifetime of TV dinners and fast food McThings. <\/p>\n

Happiness has its benefits — but let’s not get carried away. Happiness alone WON’T save your life. <\/p>\n

Happy and healthy,<\/p>\n

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happiness is no match for heart disease Some researchers are claiming that happiness could cure heart disease. If only it were that easy… For most people, heart disease is the accumulation of a lifetime of bad habits. It’s something you earn — and no matter how jolly you are, if you’re fat, sick and diabetic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}