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Smile Genuinely Into Old Age For 'Happy is Healthy'!
Pro baseball players in the 1950s who genuinely beamed in their official photographs tended to outlive more sullen-looking sportsmen and those who put on fake smiles.
Players from the US major league with honest grins lived an average of seven years longer than players who didn't smile for the camera and five years longer than players who smiled unconvincingly, found Ernest Abel and Michael Kruger at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
While it is known that happy people tend to be healthy too, the researchers wondered if this relationship would be reflected in the smiles and longevity of baseball players, reports New Scientist.
Genuine smiles are known as Duchenne smiles after the 19th-century neurologist who defined them in detail.
They engage muscles both near the corners of the mouth and around the eyes - the zygomatic major and the orbicularis oculi respectively. Fake, "non-Duchenne" smiles exercise only mouth muscles.
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