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Study finds a helping hand is more likely to be a healthy hand

kkrisberg | August 26, 2013

Helping others isn't only the right thing to do, it's the healthy thing to do. In a recent study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH), researchers found that helping others was a predictor of reduced mortality because it buffers the relationship between stress and death. In other words, stress did not predict mortality among people who had helped others in the past year, but it did predict mortality among those who had not helped others. In fact, study researchers found that their data, along with previous data, "indicate that help given to others…