Health and Suppliments

Human beings hate to grow old as that may mean many things such as weakened muscles, fading vision, dependency on others, inability to walk and run, and proximity with many health complications.

A large Gallup poll has, however, found that people get happier as they get older and this measurement can be experienced by almost any measure.

From NYtimes.com:

In measuring immediate well-being — yesterday’s emotional state — the researchers found that stress declines from age 22 onward, reaching its lowest point at 85. Worry stays fairly steady until 50, then sharply drops off. Anger decreases steadily from 18 on, and sadness rises to a peak at 50, declines to 73, then rises slightly again to 85. Enjoyment and happiness have similar curves: they both decrease gradually until we hit 50, rise steadily for the next 25 years, and then decline very slightly at the end, but they never again reach the low point of our early 50s.

Other experts were impressed with the work. Andrew J. Oswald, a professor of psychology at Warwick Business School in England, who has published several studies on human happiness, called the findings important and, in some ways, heartening. “It’s a very encouraging fact that we can expect to be happier in our early 80s than we were in our 20s,” he said. “And it’s not being driven predominantly by things that happen in life. It’s something very deep and quite human that seems to be driving this.”

Arthur A. Stone, the lead author of a new study, said the state of happiness “growing” with age may be due to psychological changes about the way we view the world, or biological changes such as brain chemistry or endocrine changes.

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