We have been told that the key to longevity involves obsessing over what we eat, how much we stress, and how fast we run. Based on a study of longevity, this title exposes what really impacts our lifespan - including friends, family, personality and work. It busts myths about achieving health and long life.

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Howard S. Friedman is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California in Riverside, California. For three decades, Professor Friedman has studied personality predictors of longevity, developing a scientific understanding of the 'disease-prone personality' and the 'self-healing personality.'

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Gathering new information and using modern statistics to study participants across eight decades, Dr Howard Friedman and Dr Leslie Martin bust myths about achieving health and long life. It is the first time that the general public has been shown the findings of this study that concerns us all.