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Loving For Your Good Health

By Newsradio 88 Staff

You've heard of being loved to death. Now how about being loved to health?

A study suggests when young people believe their parents love them, they tend to be healthier as adults. The report by two University of Arizona psychologists is based on interviews done in the 1950s with 87 Harvard undergraduates with follow-up interviews 35 years later.

The students who gave their parents high ratings for loving characteristics showed levels of disease far lower than the students who had rated their parents low on the love scale.ú