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- The most striking example comes from Oxford, Ohio, which in the 1970s conducted a study of its inhabitants, then aged over 50. So who has survived in good health? Those who had a positive outlook on their life and impending old age have lived, on average, 7.6 years longer than those with negative views.
- If the show touches a nerve in the same way as last autumn's documentary by the same director about fasting – which kick-started the phenonmenally popular 5:2 diet – many of us could soon be undertaking mental workouts in our lunch hour.
- It worked for the presenter, who over a couple of months of exercising was able to realibrate his brain. He says that he is sleeping better 'though I wouldn't call myself a heavy sleeper yet', and that he is more optimistic. So should we all be doing the exercises? 'I think anyone could do them, but I suspect a fair number who start then let it slide,' he says
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Are you happy? Did you open the curtains this morning, see that it's another day of sunshine and bounce out of bed? Or are you the ind of person who see the sun and starts worrying about getting sunburnt and the problems it may cause for gardeners.
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But a television documentary, which is to be broadcast next week, suggest that in fact, they play only a very small part and that you can, in fact, train yourself to have a more sunny attitude to life. It argues that it may ineed be simple to change negative people into positive ones.
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Next weeks' programme is timely, because the happiness of individuals is something that policymakers have started to take very seriously indeed. Indeed, yesterday, a new charity called MindFull suggested that mental health should be taught in schools. And later this month, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) will publish its National Well-being report. This will draw on a number of studies which suggest that our positivity has an impact on our helath and our educational achievements.
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