With worldwide economic turmoil and a new flu epidemic, you might think some people would have a bleak outlook. Not so, according to researchers at the University of Kansas and Gallup. They believe that optimism is a universal phenomenon.
The new study showed that 89% of individuals worldwide think the next five years will be as good or better than currently. That’s not all: 95% of people in the study expect their life in five years to be as good or better than five years ago.
The study used data from the Gallup World Poll from more than 140 countries — representing …read more

Here is something that should make you smile. Optimism is good for heart health. Yes… emotional wellbeing. I know that so many disregard how we as patients and people are felling and coping, but it is so important! I am a firm believer.
Optimism is good for heart health, at least among men, a new study shows. University of Rochester Medical Center researcher Robert Gramling, M.D., D.Sc., found that men who believed they were at lower-than-average risk for cardiovascular disease actually experienced a three times lower incidence of death from heart attacks and strokes.
The same results were not found among …read more