Serious leisure: How a hobby can lead to the meaning of life
The concept of 'serious leisure' is about turning hobbies into something like a quest, where you find and commit to a sense of purpose.
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The concept of 'serious leisure' is about turning hobbies into something like a quest, where you find and commit to a sense of purpose.
A few simple lifestyle choices can prevent many types of heart disease. Learn some practical ways to protect your heart.
Having a sense of purpose, or specific life goals, can give meaning to the more mundane aspects of life, psychologists say, while also proving beneficial to physical and mental health. Research shows a life purpose sparks healthy behaviors and reduces the risk of early death, depression, loneliness, dementia, heart attacks and strokes.
Patients identified by nuclear stress testing as having severe stress-induced myocardial ischemia (lack of blood flow to the heart) are likely to benefit from heart bypass surgery or angioplasty, while those with mild or no ischemia are not, according to a new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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