This article advances the idea that a positive attitude is conducive to longevity. As a senior citizen, 87, looking at my contemporaries, I wonder about that. Possibly, the good health prompted the positive attitude as much as the attitude influenced the health.
Wayne Lewis Gate, Okla.
While the researchers accounted for some confounding factors, they did not take into account the genetics of longevity.
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