VOA慢速英语 对未来保持乐观=活得更长吗

　　对未来保持乐观=活得更长吗

　　Happy Thoughts for Future = More Time to Live It?

　　This is the VOA Special English Health Report.

　　Here is a good reason to be hopeful about the future: it might help you stay alive.

　　Findings from a new study were presented at a recent meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society. Researchers in the United States studied one hundred thousand women during an eight-year period, beginning in nineteen ninety-four. All of the women were fifty years of age or older. The study was part of the Women's Health Initiative organized by the National Institutes of Health.

　　The women were asked questions that measured their beliefs or ideas about the future. The researchers attempted to identify each woman's personality eight years after gathering the information.

　　The study found that hopeful individuals were fourteen percent less likely than other women to have died from any cause. The hopeful women were also thirty percent less likely to have died from heart disease after the eight years.

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