Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Don't worry and live longer, study shows - Health - www.smh.com.au

Don't worry and live longer, study shows - Health - www.smh.com.au

Having a laid-back attitude to life can help you live to be 100, researchers have found.

A new Australian study has found centenarians seem to have a special ability to cope with stress, and move on from dramatic life events with a minimum of angst.

The study, presented yesterday at the second International Conference on Healthy Ageing and Longevity held in Brisbane, is the first in Australia to look at what makes up a centenarian personality.

Flinders University senior lecturer in nursing Charmaine Power said the research team was struck by the fact that most of the 24 centenarians from around the country interviewed for the study had no sense their lives had been "stressful".

"Yet some had been to war, or had been left . . .

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