Health Tips
Love & Happiness
Nearly 9 in 10 people “would rather suffer myself than let the one I love suffer,” and nearly 7 in 10 said “I cannot be happy unless I place the one I love’s happiness before my own,” according to the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. Researchers surveyed 1,300 people about altruistic love, defined as helping others without expecting to receive anything in return, and found that altruistic love for a significant other was tied to higher levels of general happiness and that married people with lots of altruistic love for their spouse had happier marriages.
Celling Out
Increasing use of cell phones and pagers causes a decrease in family satisfaction and an increase in stress, according to the December 2005 issue of Journal of Marriage and Family. Researchers found job worries spilling over into home life caused by cell-phone use had negative consequences for both men and women. In addition, women experienced the opposite effect with carry-over from home causing more stress at work.
Preventing Cancer
One-third of all cancer deaths are preventable, according to a recent study in The Lancet, a U.K.-based medical journal. Researchers identified nine “potentially modifiable risk factors,” such as overweight and obesity, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol use, low fruit and vegetable intake, unsafe sex, and urban air pollution, and estimated mortality from 12 kinds of cancer that are attributable to risk factors.
