What is the key to the long life

Loving family relationships and complete pet nearby, it appears that the key to lasting happiness, this U.S. study finds. 72-year research program in which 268 men were seen by their youth to old age, concluded that a successful marriage and close relationships are the key to a happy life. The relationship between friends and family is more important than all the benefits inherited at birth by wealth or class, says the study. Scientists who began the program in 1940 found that loving family and wife is "more important than the possession of trust or affinity in a direct line to a member of the House of Lords." Head of research scientists from Harvard Medical School, George Vaillant said the results men have a wonderful relationship, have a longer life expectancy. "The discovery of happiness is that happiness is the wrong word. Correct words for happiness are emotional intelligence, relationships, happiness and sustainability. Happiness is very close to hedonism and luck," said Vaillant. He noted that only four of 31 single men in the study were still alive today compared to over a third of men with good connections. The study involved young, white, healthy men, sophomore in college. It began in 1940 and continues today.