Old age - a reason to be happy!

Aging is good for the psyche, as scientists have found. People over 50 stress level in the blood is much lower, they feel happier and much less likely to face depression.

Although our body and begins to demonstrate sad signs of aging   after we peddling sixth decade, our spirit, on the contrary, is strengthened. This is the conclusion, researchers from Stony Brook University in New York.

On average, older people much less worried, experience less stress and anger. What is most surprising - people between the ages of 70 and 80 the least negative emotions. As it is simply impossible to believe. Of course, the life of American retirees can not be compared with the life of Russian old people, but really old age, even the ocean is an occasion for happiness ?

"The older you get, the more your mood improves - insists author of the study, Professor Arthur Stone. - This trend can be traced even signs of aging , The fact that older people significantly more likely to have to deal with their health, and to deal with the death of loved ones and friends. "

This is because elderly people have the most powerful sources of stress young - their career and personal life. After a half-century anniversary of the few people seeks to achieve some higher levels of the profession, unless it is not a professional politician. By this time the family, as a rule, long-established, and the children grew up.

However, the validity of the study is still worth question. Social scientists relied on data from a telephone survey of service Gallup, engulfed 340 thousand people across the United States. However, these people did not watch any amount of time, besides their feelings may be characterized not old at all, but only a certain generation. (READ MORE)

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