Health and Fitness

Optimistic Spouse Better for Partner’s Health

A happy senior couple sitting together outside. Image credit: Ian RussellANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–April 22, 2014.  If your spouse expects good things to happen, your health may be in luck.

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Having an optimistic spouse predicted better mobility and fewer chronic illnesses over time, even above and beyond a person’s own level of optimism, according to a new University of Michigan study.

The findings appear in the current issue of Journal of Psychosomatic Research.

Researchers used data from the Health and Retirement Study, a national study of American…

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