Can Your Mental Health Affect Your Longevity?

There’s truth to the adage that you’re only as old as you feel. “Physical well-being and subjective well-being are two sides of the same coin,” says Howard Friedman, author of The Longevity Project, a research-based look at who lives the longest and why.

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Happy? Positive outlook may be good for your heart

Scientists have long known that Type A personalities and people who are chronically angry, anxious or depressed have a higher risk of heart attacks.

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The Guide to Beating a Heart Attack

Here’s the good news: Heart disease and its consequences are largely preventable. The bad news is that nearly one million Americans will suffer a heart attack this year.

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Music Brings Relief to Alzheimer’s Patients

Songs from our past have amazing power to take us back years or decades. That is demonstrated dramatically in a clip from a new film that has gone viral in the past few days: It shows an elderly man named Henry Dreher who emerges from a near stupor to dance in his chair, sing with gusto and wax poetic — all thanks to an iPod loaded with the songs of Cab Calloway, Bing Crosby and other favorites from the nursing home resident’s youth.

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New View of Depression: An Ailment of the Entire Body

Scientists are increasingly finding that depression and other psychological disorders can be as much diseases of the body as of the mind.

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