optimism

The evidence clearly shows optimism is better for your health — but how do you look on the bright side when times are tough?

The CBC journalist is accused of an alleged conflict of interest, Cadbury's U.K. contingent tries to pull one over on chocoholics, and Canada's lesser-known tourist draw gets a shout-out in The New York Times.

Raised by a pessimistic French mother in a positive North American world, Olivia Stren felt like an emotional outsider. Turns out her mother’s realism was a gift after all.

Harvard researchers find eating foods with beta carotene is linked to higher levels of optimism.

I don’t know how it happened, but it seems the older I get, the more optimistic I am. When I was younger, at times I’d swirl in tornadoes of negativity about issues big and small.