happiness

  • Optimize Your Well-being

    Tai Ben-Shahar, positive psychology expert and author of Choose the Life You Want: 101 Ways to Create Your Own Road to Happiness, shows how choosing correctly in the countless small choices we make every day almost without noticing has a direct, long-lasting effect on our happiness.

  • Beat Golden-Year Blues

    In the last 20 years, the average life expectancy has increased 12 percent, but for our parents and grandparents living in nursing homes, a longer life may not mean a happier one. According to a recent study, one-third of nursing-home residents (median age of 82) suffer from depression. The good news: The fix may be as simple as supplementing with selenium.

    By Kristin Bjornsen