Smile for Life

Smile and the world smiles with you. Now Research shows that smiling may give you more time in this world as well. US researchers analysed the smiles of professional baseball players from the 1952 Baseball Registry, rating each player's expression, noting where they had no smile, a partial smile or a full smile. Players with a broad smile lived an everage five years longer than players who didn't smile, the researchers reported in the Journal Psychological Science.

The Washington Post