Positive attitude helps stave off seasonal colds, viruses

Look on the bright side. See the glass as half-full. Make lemonade from a lemon. Whatever clich & eacute; it takes to keep your attitude upbeat, make it your mantra. You may stay healthier during the winter cold season.
Allure magazine reports that researchers at Carnegie Mellon asked more than 300 men and women to rate their emotional state as it related to words such as "lively," "cheerful," "energetic," "unhappy," "nervous," "resentful" and "angry."
Once they had determined the subjects' emotional styles, they gave them nasal drops containing cold viruses.
It probably comes as no surprise. Those people with a "highly positive emotional style" developed fewer cold symptoms.
The subjects with a more negative outlook did not become ill significantly more than those with a slightly more positive outlook, but they had more discomfort than predicted. (Or maybe they whined more.)
The researchers told Allure that it's not enough simply to bring down the doom and gloom quotient.
One has to be out there aggressively looking for the silver lining or, as they put it, being "actively upbeat."