Study: Happiness Won't Extend Your Life After All (latimes.com)

schwit1 writes with good news for fans of living a long and ultimately unfulfilling life. Happy people live longer, a relationship that's been documented in a variety of research studies. But a new paper published in the medical journal Lancet comes to the sad conclusion that happiness isn't responsible for this observed longevity. Instead, the things that make people happy, particularly their good health, are the same things that shield them from premature death. "Happiness and related measures of well-being do not appear to have any direct effect on mortality," the study authors wrote.

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i remember the other science advice about lifespan

[Anonymous Coward]

They said I would live longer if I gave up red meat, dessert, exercised every day, and got married.

But then it occurred to me that it probably just seems longer.

Re:i remember the other science advice about lifes

[Anonymous Coward]

And it's so hard to live on a vegetarian diet. They tend to be awfully stringy and tough to chew. But if you wrap them in enough bacon, who cares?