Happy People May Have Better Heart Health

Here it is, the final nail in the coffin of improving "heart health."

Individuals who find joy, excitement, and contentment in their daily lives may be protected from cardiovascular disease, researchers found.

Higher levels of positive affect, a measure of happiness, were associated with a significantly lower risk of having a cardiovascular event over a 10-year period (P=0.02), according to Karina Davidson, PhD, of Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, and colleagues...

The findings suggest that strategies to prevent heart disease may be bolstered by increasing an individual's zest for life, they said, noting, however, that this observational data cannot be used to make practice recommendations.

If "making" people happy is what we need to improve "heart health," then clearly the hurdle is set too high.

Or we need to distribute Soma.

In [Brave New World], happiness derives from consuming mass-produced goods, sports such as Obstacle Golf and Centrifugal Bumble-puppy, promiscuous sex, "the feelies", and most famously of all, a supposedly perfect pleasure-drug, soma.

Fat people already hallucinate that they are either not fat or it makes no difference.

With Soma, they will be happier in their hallucinations.