Hitched's Blog Posts Tagged 'British' (3)

A new British study of 3,853 participants ages 52-79 was conducted in a single day asking how happy people were using a rating scale from 1 ("not at all") to 4 ("extremely"). Five years later the researchers looked at who was still alive and kicking. What they found was those who reported being happiest had a 35% reduced risk of dying… Continue

Researchers from the University of British Columbia and Pennsylvania State University tracked the emotional and physical histories of more than 1,700 older couples over a 15-year period and found a strong relationship between “depressive symptoms” (unhappiness, loneliness and restlessness) and “functional…

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In a bit of an odd study, British researchers evaluated substances including alcohol, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and marijuana and ranked them based on how destructive they are to the individual who takes them and to society as a whole. Most dangerous was alcohol—even more than heroin and cocaine. Marijuana was found to be the least harmful. Taken into consideration these drugs were analyzed on how addictive it is, how it harms the body, environmental damage caused by the drug, its role… Continue