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Podcast: 60 Mindful Minutes
Episode: Why Kindness Makes You Healthier with Marta Zaraska
Description: For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode96/ Â Two-Day Silent Retreat details: https://kristenmanieri.com/octobersilentretreat/ Â Description In her book, Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100, science journalist Marta Zaraska offers a research-driven case for why optimism, kindness and strong social networks will keep us living longer than any fitness tracker or superfood. While healthy nutrition and physical activity are indeed important for health, there are things we all too often sacrifice that have an outsize impact on ou...