The power of positive thinking: Optimism can fend off cancer, heart disease and infection for EIGHT years

A new study has revealed that women who are optimistic are less likely to die from cancer, heart disease, stroke, infection, and several other major causes of death. The positive health effects for the women were shown to last over eight years. The study's most optimistic women had a nearly 30 per cent lower risk of death from major diseases than its least optimistic women. Do plants learn like humans? Smart seedlings can be taught...