Researchers from Osaka University find that psychological distress and exposure to environmental carcinogens decrease the length of emotional wellbeing in Japanese people.
Researchers from Osaka University find that psychological distress and exposure to environmental carcinogens decrease the length of emotional wellbeing in Japanese people.
If improving your outlook on life really was as simple as “don’t worry, be happy,” then keeping your spirits up would be a piece of cake. Unfortunately, it’s not so simple, as a multitude of factors beyond our control can affect our mood.
In a study published in March in Environmental Research, researchers from Osaka University have revealed that contaminants in the environment can have an effect on our lifespan emotional wellbeing.
A recently developed risk assessment tool defined happy life expectancy as the lifespan during which a person experiences subjective emotional wellbeing, while loss of happy life expectancy (LHpLE) was defined as a decrease in the length of positive emotional experiences in an individual’s life. LHpLE is calculated by combining both the reduction in happiness and the increase in mortality associated with risk exposure.
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