Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Some have already been mentioned. But there's more. Health, for me, is
> about me feeling healthy. It is not about the population of my
> area/country/the world being to 83% free of certain symptoms. I'm
> reasonably certain that I share this with most. 

Well put.

> But this is not all. It's well-known (probably even
> "scientifically" confirmed by studies) that happier people are more healthy
> on average (everything else being equal), but when was the last time a
> health professional you consulted focussed on this? Are there scientific
> methods to become happier? 

I think there may be... but they are usually called 'religions.'  Or, 
perhaps, 'philosophies.'  And so we draw Venn diagram circles around 
them and consider them separately.

(e.g., by noting that we may be passing out of the "EE" tag!)
-- 
Timothy J. Weber
http://timothyweber.org
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