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Can Happiness Improve Your Health?
It seems, especially today in the chaotic world in which we live, it’s important to ask the question, “Can Happiness Improve Your Health? Happiness is an important ingredient in any healthy life. Many studies indicate happiness does play a major role in your health, whether it’s living a healthy lifestyle or reducing the amount of chronic pain — happiness is the solution to many of our health woes.
Encourages Healthy Living
According to studies, happier people are almost twice as likely to eat more fresh vegetables than people who say they are not happy. Eating more produce definitely improves your health overeating a diet high in processed food, bad fat, salt and sugar.
Provides Energy
When you eat better, you have more energy. Being and feeling negative or sad can actually drain your energy while being happy can give you more energy!
Boosts Immunity
Eating better, moving more, and feeling happy also increase your ability to fight off illness and disease because your immunity is improved. One study showed that people who say they are happy are able to fight off illness faster than people who say they are mostly sad and depressed. They found that when exposed to a cold virus, happy people were three times less likely to get the cold!
