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Having Pets Can Make You Feel and Look Younger – Uh Huh, Uh Huh

August 13, 2009 by Joi 9 Comments

Book links are usually affiliate links. This means I earn a small percentage when you click through and buy the book. This costs you nothing extra - it simply allows me to keep my cats in the lifestyle they're accustomed to.

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One of my favorite websites is Prevention.com. You’ll find me skulking around its pages regularly – reading, taking notes, vowing to do this, promising to cut out that.

One of the things I love even more that great reading material is animals (Had you guessed how much I love of animals?).  So I found the following extremely interesting.  It’s from an article titled, Prevention’s Anti-Aging Guide: How to take off 10 years or more–and look and feel better than ever.

The author gives great advice on staying youthful and healthy.  The following is tip #4 and you’ll soon discover why it’s my favorite one of all.

Open up your home and heart to Rover or Boots. Owning a pet reduces the number of visits to the doctor, prolongs survival after a heart attack, and wards off depression, says James Serpell, PhD, director of the Center for the Interaction of Animals and Society at the University of Pennsylvania. (His family has a cat, a dog, a large green iguana, a bearded dragon, and a dozen fish.)

Pet ownership also protects against a major problem of aging: high blood pressure. In one standout study at State University of New York, Buffalo, stockbrokers with high blood pressure adopted a pet. When they were faced with mental stress, their BP increased less than half as much as in their counterparts without animal pals.

We have cats, hamsters, and even two hermit crabs in our family.  I’ve been campaigning hot and heavy for another dog since ours passed away a year ago.  In fact, I think two dogs would be ideal – they could entertain one another.  I’ve used everything on my husband – how they’d make wonderful walking companions, how they’d serve as a security system, how they add to the quality of one’s life, etc.

What Prevention just did was give me another angle.  Honey…. animals are like drops from the fountain of youth.  The more you have, the younger you’ll be.

Click the link to read the entire article:  How to Take Off 10 Years or More

Filed Under: General, Health, Self Help Tagged With: benefits of pets, pets

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  1. Josten says

    August 13, 2009 at 5:12 pm

    We have two dogs. I must say when i am stressed they calm me down.
    .-= Josten´s last blog ..What to expect if i continue thinking positive =-.

  2. Stephany says

    August 14, 2009 at 1:54 am

    Duchess and Chihuahua!! haha!
    .-= Stephany´s last blog ..Marc Jacobs Fall 2009 Bags =-.

  3. Michael (MySweetLuck) says

    August 14, 2009 at 12:57 pm

    It’s true….actually you just broke one of my secrets to look younger….by the way gotta thank my cute little dog Mimi for showering me with love…

    great post…
    -MICHAEL (MYSWEETLUCK)
    .-= Michael (MySweetLuck)´s last blog ..10 Thomas Alva Edison Quotes That Is Worth Reading =-.

  4. joi says

    August 17, 2009 at 6:53 pm

    Love to Mimi!

  5. joi says

    August 17, 2009 at 6:54 pm

    I’ve got nothing but love for our invisible dogs! – Joi

  6. joi says

    August 18, 2009 at 6:49 am

    Josten, not only do my cats bring me a lot of relaxation – I’ve noticed that birds work the same kind of mojo. When I’m having a stressful day working at my computer, I can take my coffee cup outside and sit in my front yard for about 10 minutes and instantly feel better. Just listening to their beautiful chorus and watching them jockey for position at one of our feeders puts me in a much better place.

    It’s also funny to watch our outside cats watching the little feathered meals that are much, much too fast for them! Our inside cat watches them from the window and I’d swear she licks her lips.

  7. Hydroponics Supplies says

    March 11, 2010 at 3:43 am

    I just can’t resist to be amaze with a writer who are truly exceptional for they articles that are really interesting to a blogger like me. I will not spend time reading an article when the topic is not important or has no the significant. You did a good job for always providing relevant and meaningful article.

  8. david @ spindle repair says

    January 14, 2011 at 1:11 pm

    I have a black labrador and it is so true…that no matter what is going on at a particular moment..she is there to make me smile and forget about whatever might be happening or whatever is upsetting me or stressing me. Always unconditional love!

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