Be Happy: Have a Healthy Heart

So last night, while listening to the radio, I learned that Forrest General Hospital has a wellness page that provides tips on healthy living and eating. They also have blogs which provide interesting tips on how to stay healthy. I found a blog about keeping the heart healthy by being happy. The blogs suggests that happiness reduces stress and lower blood pressure.

When you think about it, this makes perfect sense. When people are truly happy, they are not depressed and usually are calmer when it comes to hard times or stress. In return, I can see how happiness helps a persons’ heart.

I learned that positive feelings can result in longer lives as well as other factors. This makes sense as well, because you may know someone who has lost a spouse, then, that someone later passes away. Sometimes the depression and loneliness can lead to that person passing away within the next year of their spouse dying. Could it be that the lack of happiness resulted in their death? Check out the entire article.

In fact, WebMD wrote, “the researchers found that the happiest people were 22% less likely to develop heart disease…” I personally haven’t ever had any heart problems or unbalanced blood pressure, even while pregnant. Maybe it is because I am a pretty happy person overall!