Give till it
hurts if you want to live longer!
According
to a study, making a habit of giving can give you good health and longevity.
The study has been borne out by a five-year study by three universities.
Principal
study investigator Michael J. Poulin, from the University of Buffalo, said:
‘This study offers a significant contribution… specifically to our
understanding of how giving assistance to others may offer health benefits to
the giver by buffering the negative effects of stress.’
Poulin,
assistant professor of psychology at Buffalo, along with colleagues at Stony
Brook University and Grand Valley State University, conducted the study,
involving 846 subjects, the American Journal of Public Health reports. They
point out that although it is established that social isolation and stress are
significant predictors of mortality and morbidity, 20 years of studies and
meta-analytical review have failed to establish that receiving social support
from others buffers recipients against mortality after exposure to psychosocial
stress.
‘We
tested the hypothesis that providing help to others would predict a reduced
association between stress and mortality for the helpers,’ Poulin said,
according to a Buffalo statement. ‘Specifically, over the five years of the
study, we found that when dealing with stressful situations, those who had
helped others during the previous year were less likely to die than those who
had not helped others,’ he said.
Self-reported
stressful experiences included such things as serious, non-life-threatening
illness, burglary, job loss, financial difficulties or death of a family
member.
Source:
http://health.india.com
06.02.2013
Give
till it hurts if you want to live longer!
According
to a study, making a habit of giving can give you good health and longevity.
The study has been borne out by a five-year study by three universities.
Principal
study investigator Michael J. Poulin, from the University of Buffalo, said:
‘This study offers a significant contribution… specifically to our
understanding of how giving assistance to others may offer health benefits to
the giver by buffering the negative effects of stress.’
Poulin,
assistant professor of psychology at Buffalo, along with colleagues at Stony
Brook University and Grand Valley State University, conducted the study,
involving 846 subjects, the American Journal of Public Health reports. They
point out that although it is established that social isolation and stress are
significant predictors of mortality and morbidity, 20 years of studies and
meta-analytical review have failed to establish that receiving social support
from others buffers recipients against mortality after exposure to psychosocial
stress.
‘We
tested the hypothesis that providing help to others would predict a reduced
association between stress and mortality for the helpers,’ Poulin said,
according to a Buffalo statement. ‘Specifically, over the five years of the
study, we found that when dealing with stressful situations, those who had
helped others during the previous year were less likely to die than those who
had not helped others,’ he said.
Self-reported
stressful experiences included such things as serious, non-life-threatening
illness, burglary, job loss, financial difficulties or death of a family
member.
Source:
http://health.india.com
06.02.2013
Experience
tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it
Stan
Smith
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