乐于助人,好处众多。英国《每日邮报》报道的一项新研究提醒我们,做好事不仅利人利己,还能提高身体的抗病能力。美国加州大学洛杉矶分校和北卡罗来纳大学的研究人员,联合开展了一项长达10年的研究,首次探索了心理特征和人类基因表达的关系,最近在《美国国家科学院院刊》上发表了这项研究结果。他们抽血化验了80名身体健康的成年志愿者,并全面评估了其幸福感。结果发现,不同来源的幸福感,会通过改变一个人的基因表达水平,进而影响其身体健康状态。其中,因帮助别人而获得幸福感的人,能 Helpful, many benefits. A new study reported by the British “Daily Mail” reminds us that doing good not only helps one another but also improves the body’s resistance to disease. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of North Carolina have jointly conducted a 10-year study that first explored the relationship between psychological traits and human gene expression, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Results of the study. They took blood and tested 80 healthy adult volunteers and thoroughly assessed their well-being. The results showed that the happiness of different sources, by changing a person’s gene expression level, and thus affect their health status. Among them, people who are able to get happiness by helping others can do so