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Why do some people live to be older than others? You know the standard explanations: keeping a moderate diet, engaging in regula
Why do some people live to be older than others? You know the standard explanations: keeping a moderate diet, engaging in regula
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2021-01-06
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Why do some people live to be older than others? You know the standard explanations: keeping a moderate diet, engaging in regular exercise, etc. But what effect does your personality have on your longevity(长寿)? Do some kinds of personalities lead to longer lives? A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at this question by examining the personality characteristics of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100.
The study shows that those living the longest are more outgoing, more active and less neurotic(神经质的)than other people. Long-living women are also more likely to be sympathetic and cooperative than women with a normal life span. These findings are in agreement with what you would expect from the evolutionary theory: those who like to make friends and help others can gather enough resources to make it through tough times.
Interestingly, however, other characteristics that you might consider advantageous had no impact on whether study participants were likely to live longer. Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old. Also, being open to new ideas had no relationship to long life, which might explain all those bad-tempered old people who are fixed in their ways.
Whether you can successfully change your personality as an adult is the subject of a longstanding psychological debate. But the new paper suggests that if you want long life, you should strive to be as outgoing as possible.
Unfortunately, another recent study shows that your mother’s personality may also help determine your longevity. That study looked at nearly 28,000 Norwegian mothers and found that those moms who were more anxious, depressed and angry were more likely to feed their kids unhealthy diets. Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when we’re adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.
Personality isn’t destiny(命运), and everyone knows that individuals can learn to change. But both studies show that long life isn’t just a matter of your physical health but of your mental health.
What can we learn from the findings of the two new studies?
选项
A、Anxiety and depression more often than not cut short one’s life span.
B、Longevity results from a combination of mental and physical health.
C、Personality plays a decisive role in how healthy one is.
D、Health is in large part related to one’s lifestyle.
答案
B
解析
推理判断题。定位句提到,这两个研究结果均表明:长寿不仅仅是身体健康的问题,也与精神健康有关。由此可见,长寿源自身、心两方面的健康,故答案为B)。
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