Don't Worry, Be Healthy?

The purpose of this blog is a healthy AND happy Shabbat table....please print and share...

Dovetailing with last week's message about end-of-life regrets, here's something relevant to everyone today.

A new peer-reviewed study in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine finds that people who experienced increased stress, anxiety and depression at the start of the pandemic were at greater risk of getting COVID-19.

Question for your table - What do you think? Does that sound remotely plausible? If so, what's the take-away?

We all know that correlation doesn't equal causation. Yet we also know that your psychology can impact your health. Maybe being happy gives you stronger immunity.

Check out the article, and look at their references, such as "Stress and Health: A Review of Psychobiological Processes". 

Then try this one at the table - How could this wisdom be applied?

Everyone surely agrees that being healthy makes you happier than being sick. But if being happier also makes you healthier, which comes first - health or happiness?

(Hint: click on the doc above.)

And how can you possibly help a person who is both unhealthy and unhappy?

Shabbat Shalom


PS -  This week's 8-minute podcast is called "Good News, Bad News" and there are 10 ways to hear it:

iTunes/iPhone … YidPod … Spotify … Google Podcasts … Pocketcasts … Stitcher … Podbean … Amazon Podcasts … RSS … or just on the web.

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