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REAL LIFE NEWS: SMILE AND LIVE LONG

by Hazed

Smile like you mean it, sang one of my favorite groups The Killers. It turns out that if you really do smile a lot, and mean it, you could live longer.

Researchers checked the published photos of baseball players in the 1950s, and those who had a genuine smile, that they really meant, tended to outlive the more serious or sulky sportsmen, as well as those who smiled but were faking it.

The players with the honest grins lived an average of seven years longer than the non-smilers, and five years longer than those who smiled unconvincingly.

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