items of interest July 16, 2001 Issue

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items of interest

with contributions from David Bocking

Increasing evidence supports the thesis that feeling gratitude, appreciation, and compassion has a positive effect on the heart and on immune functions.

Reporting on the positive effect of gratitude on health, Dr. Robert A. Emmons of the University of California at Davis comments, "A grateful heart, then, might be a healthy heart."

The report also documents that an active religious life tends to go hand in hand with gratitude, and that religious involvement supports good health.

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