Why you should really be happy on your birthday
- Thu Nov 17 2011
- Astrid Van Den Broek
We’re in the midst of celebrating my daughter’s 7th birthday. I say "in the midst" because that’s really what it is — the celebration that once lasted for a day is more elastic now.
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Why happiness can add years to your life
- Mon Nov 07 2011
- Astrid Van Den Broek
You eat filled-to-the-brim bowls of leafy green salads regularly. You take several long walks weekly. You try to log some serious zzzz time at night. But who knew that happiness could further influence how long you live?
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At what age will you be happiest?
- Thu Nov 03 2011
- Sarah Treleaven
I've been sort of under the impression that things are going to get steadily better as I get older. Sure, there are the inevitable realities of the body. The elasticity in my skin will give, I'm already kind of thinking that I'm past the bikini years, and my childbearing opportunities are not eternal.
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Would lying about your age make you happier?
- Fri Oct 28 2011
- Sarah Treleaven
A little while ago, I heard a rumour. "She lies about her age," said my friend, nodding his head in the direction of a good friend's ex-girlfriend, who was just out of earshot.
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Do you feel old?
- Wed Mar 30 2011
- Sarah Treleaven
Ladies, why do we do this to ourselves? A recent story in the Daily Mail — "Young at heart or old before their time?" — explores a study that found that men feel over the hill at 58, but for women it's 29. (29!)
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Why you should be happy you're getting older
- Thu Mar 17 2011
- Astrid Van Den Broek
For Shari Graydon, it was a newspaper column that got her fired up enough to write a book. “A columnist I read regularly had devoted her entire column one day to cataloguing the litany of the wrinkle-prone areas on a woman’s body and included areas of a woman’s body that had never occurred to me to be concerned about,” says Graydon, the Ottawa-based women’s advocate and author of I Feel Great About My Hands…And Other Unexpected Joys of Aging.
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How happiness helps you live longer
- Fri Mar 11 2011
- Sarah Treleaven
It will come as no surprise that people who are happy and more positive enjoy life more, but according to a review of over 100 studies by scientists from the University of Illinois, it turns out that those same people actually live longer than their grumpier, less content peers.
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