One way to look at life is to consider it an endurance sport - so I tend to pay attention to information about “aging gracefully”.
It is for this reason that I found Therese Borchard’s article interesting.
One of the things she finds healthy older people have in common is they “like to laugh"…
Yep, nearly all of them have a marvelous sense of humor. And this is consistent with a Norwegian study that suggests folks who can laugh at life’s ups and downs live longer.
For example, the study, which was presented at a meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society and reported by USA Today, followed a subgroup of 2,015 cancer patients for seven years, and found that the people who could laugh more easily and had a healthy sense of humor were 70 percent less likely to die than the poker-faced guys.
"3 Things Healthy Older People Have in Common"
