{"id":1713,"date":"2013-09-16T03:53:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T03:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nptrust.wpengine.com\/giving-is-good-for-your-health\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T10:34:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T15:34:35","slug":"giving-is-good-for-your-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nptrust.org\/philanthropic-resources\/philanthropist\/giving-is-good-for-your-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving is Good for Your Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isr.umich.edu\/acl\/\">Americans\u2019 Changing Lives<\/a> study is the oldest, ongoing national study of social, psychological and behavioral factors in health. Researchers from the National Institute of Aging started with a representative cross-section of the U.S. population in 1986 and have followed those survivors for the past 25 years.\u00a0ACL is the first\u2014but certainly not the only\u2014study to determine that volunteerism and giving is good for your physical and mental health. Making charitable donations triggers the brain\u2019s reward center, the same way food and sex do; researchers call it a \u201chelper\u2019s high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some findings from ACL and other studies found that volunteers experience:<br \/>\n\u2022 lower rates of depression (University of Texas)<br \/>\n\u2022 lower blood pressure (University of Michigan)<br \/>\n\u2022 lower rates of heart disease (Corporation for National and Community Service)<br \/>\n\u2022 longer lifespan (UC-Berkeley)<\/p>\n<p>So, giving feels good in every way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Giving isn&#39;t just good for others, it&#39;s good for you too.&nbsp;Studies show that charitable giving and volunteerism has positive effects on your physiological and psychological 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