Final draft "happiness and health"

Happiness helps people to stay healthy

           

An essential component to maintaining good health is being happy. According to studies, people who have positive thinking and are usually happy are less likely than others to develop diseases. Most times happier people may have healthier hearts and cardiovascular systems, possibly cutting their risk of diseases. The mind and negative thoughts are associated also with health problems. In addition, laughter can be one of the best ways to maintain healthy people. Madan Kataria affirms that “laughter, would not only improve ones mood, but enhance physical well-being” (Khatchadourian 77).

Happiness is one of the best ways to prevent and cure diseases. In other words, happier people may have a better quality of life. Richard Mulcaster, a humanist educator, argued that “being happy produced warmth throughout the body, and was good antidote for colds, headaches, and bouts of melancholy” (Khatchadourian 84). Consequently, whether people are happy or less happy in their everyday lives appears to have important effects on health and disease development. To illustrate, according to a new study, people who are usually happy, enthusiastic and content are less likely than others to develop heart illness. Ka­rina Da­vid­son of Co­lum­bia Uni­vers­ity Med­i­cal Cen­ter in New York, who led the new stu­dy, said it sug­gests heart dis­ease might be in some de­gree pre­venta­ble through pos­i­tive emo­tions. For example, some people often have heart attacks when they enter in a crisis of anger and negative emotions. In fact, many diseases such as heart illness are associated with unhappiness and negative emotions. According to the article Pathologies of Hope “hope, optimism, and a positive attitude are the keys to health and longevity”(Ehrenreich 72). To conclude, prevention and treatment of diseases should take into consideration the emotional state of individuals.

Sometimes your mind and negative thoughts can influence in your health and also affect your life, not only the way you look but also the way you feel and your overall health. In other words, the mind affects the body and the body affects the mind also. It goes both ways, but the main factor is the mind. According to the earliest scientific “the mind influences various functions of the body” (Khatchadourian 84). For instance, if you have a positive attitude in life, if you know you can make any situation better and you have no negative emotions, then the body will survive better. "This is the best data to date that associates positive emotional feelings with good effects on your health," says Carol Shively, at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, US. "We usually concentrate on things that are either  bad or wrong, rather than good or right."  Some people tend to worry and get negative thoughts when they have a test or job interview. In consequence, they get sick and their emotional state change completely. This means that the mind and negative thoughts have such power in our bodies even in simple situations. According to the article Pathologies of hope “negative thoughts can be harmful to your health and might even shorten your life span””(Ehrenreich 72). . In fact, you have to control your thoughts and try to maintain a positive attitude to have a better quality of life.

Laughter can be one of the best ways to avoid diseases and maintain healthy people. Madan Kataria explains that “laughter alleviates pain, and mitigates Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. Patients with multiple sclerosis who laughed regularly had a lot improvement”(qtd.in Khatchadourian 84). In other words, laughter can be the best medicine for people. Some people forget how important is to laugh and as a result it affects not only their emotional state but also their health. According to the scientist Lee Berk “mirthful laughter increases the production of natural-killer cells, which help the body to fight viral infections and cancerous growths. He argues also that “laughter can have salutary effects on everything from heart disease to diabetes and allergies” (Khatchadourian 85). For those reasons, one of the best ways to keep healthy is laughing and it is also a good therapy to cure and prevent diseases.

In conclusion, people who have positive thinking and are usually happy are less likely than others to develop diseases. Sometimes depression and negative thoughts can affect your overall health. On the other hand, people who have positive thoughts and correct attitude about life can positively affect their health. Laughter is a choice and we can take it to improve and prevent diseases. Consequently, laughter and being happy can be the best medicine for people.