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You Are How You Feel

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Brochure from Craig Hospital in Colorado about the relationship between how you feel and your physical health.

It turns out that many different researchers in many different papers have come to a similar conclusion: people's self-rated health has a strong relationship to their actual physical health. Most people, it appears, feel healthy. Studies using a single question that asks people to evaluate their own health have found that nearly 97% of people say their health is generally good or better. In our own studies of people with spinal cord injury, it's not much different. Almost 93% of about 1000 surveyed people with spinal cord injuries said they were generally healthy.

Although it may seem that the answer to such a simple question might really mean very little, the extent of it's meaning is sometimes surprising. In one study, feeling you were unhealthy actually increased your risk of dying a little more than even having a chronic disease. A different study found that hose who said their health was poor were more likely to develop a chronic disease in the future.

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