GIVING
Jill Suttie and Jason Marsh, “5 Ways Giving Is Good for You,” Greater Good Magazine, December 13, 2010,
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/5_ways_giving_is_good_for-you.
HAPPINESS
Elizabeth W. Dunn, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, “Spending Money on Others Promotes Happiness,” Science
319, no. 5870 (March 21, 2008), 1687-8, https://www.doi.org/10.1126/science.1150952.
Jorge Moll et al., “Human Fronto-Mesolimbic Networks Guide Decisions About Charitable Donation,” Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103, no. 42 (October 17, 2006): 15623-
15628, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0604475103.
HEATLH
Stephen Post and Jill Neimark, Why Good Things Happen to Good People: The Exciting New Research that Proves
the Link Between Doing Good and Living a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life (New York: Broadway Books, 2007).
A.V. Whillans et al., “Is Spending Money on Others Good for Your Heart?” Health Psychology 35, no. 6, 574-583,
https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000332.
Rodlescia S. Sneed and Sheldon Cohen, “A Prospective Study of Volunteerism and Hypertension Risk in Older
Adults,” Psychology and Aging 28, no. 2 (2013): 578-586, https://doi.org/10.1037/a0032718.
Christie Nicholson, “Generosity Might Keep Us Healthy,” Scientific American podcast, October 23, 2010,
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/generosity-might-keep-us-healthy-10-10-26/.
Marc Musick and John Wilson, “Volunteering and Depression: The Role of Psychological and Social Resources in
Different Age Groups,” Social Science and Medicine 56, no. 2 (January 2003): 259-69,
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0277-9536(02)00025-4.
Christian Smith and Hilary Davidson, The Paradox of Generosity: Giving We Receive, Grasping We Lose (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2014).
Stephen G. Post, “Altruism, Happiness, and Health: It’s Good to Be Good,” International Journal of Behavioral
Medicine 12 (2005): 66-77, https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327558ijbm1202_4.
Doug Oman, Carl E. Thoresen, and Kay Mcmahon, “Volunteerism and Mortality among the Community-dwelling
Elderly,” Journal of Health Psychology 4, no. 3 (May 1, 1999), 301-316,
https://doi.org/10.1177%2F135910539900400301.
Stephanie L. Brown et al., “Providing Social Support May Be More Beneficial Than Receiving It: Results from a
Prospective Study of Mortality,” Psychological Science 14, no. 4 (July 2003): 320-7,
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9280.14461.
SOCIAL CONNECTEDNESS
Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want (New York: Penguin,
2008).
Stephen G. Post, The Hidden Gifts of Helping: How the Power of Giving, Compassion, and Hope Can Get Us
Through Hard Times (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2011).
GRATITUDE
Michael E. McCullough, Robert A. Emmons, Jo-Ann Tsang, “The Grateful Disposition: A Conceptual and Empirical
Topography,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 82, no. 1 (January 2002): 112-27,
https://doi.org/10.1037//0022-3514.82.1.112.
RIPPLE EFFECT
James H. Fowler and Nicholas A. Christakis, “Cooperative Behavior Cascades in Human Social Networks,”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107, no. 12 (March 23, 2010):
5334-5338, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0913149107.
HEALTHY LIFESTYLE
Michael Orlich et al., “Vegetarian Dietary Patterns and Mortality in Adventist Health Study 2,” JAMA Internal
Medicine 173, no 13 (July 8, 2013): 1230-8, https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.6473.
“Loma Linda, California,” Blue Zones, 2008, https://www.bluezones.com/exploration/loma-linda-california.
Dawn Handschuh, “Adventist Health Studies,” Nutrition Facts,
https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/adventist-health-studies.
Veronique Bouvard et al., “Carcinogenicity of Consumption of Red and Processed Meat,” The Lancet Oncology
16, no. 16 (December 1, 2015): 1599-1600, https://doi.org/10.1016/s1470-2045(15)00444-1.
Yanping Li et al., “Impact of Healthy Lifestyle Factors on Life Expectancies in the US Population,” Circulation 138,
no. 4 (April 30, 2018): 345-355, https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.032047.
Pramil N. Singh, “Does Low Meat Consumption Increase Life Expectancy in Humans?” The American Journal of
Clinical Nutrition 78, no. 3 (September 2003): 526S-532S, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/78.3.526S.
N. Wright et al., “The BROAD Study: A Randomized Controlled Trial Using a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet in the
Community for Obesity, Ischaemic Heart Disease or Diabetes,” Nutrition & Diabetes 7, no. 3 (March 20, 2017):
e256, https://doi.org/10.1038/nutd.2017.3.
Dean Ornish et al., “Can Lifestyle Changes Reverse Coronary Heart Disease?” The Lancet 336, no. 8708 (July 21,
1990): 129-133, https://doi.org/10.1016/0140-6736(90)91656-U.
Caldwell Esselstyn and Mladen Golubic, “The Nutritional Reversal of Cardiovascular Disease: Fact or Fiction?
Three Case Reports,” Experimental and Clinical Cardiology 20, no. 7 (January 2014): 1901-1908.
Daniele Massera et al., “Angina Rapidly Improved with a Plant-Based Diet and Returned after Resuming a
Western Diet,” Journal of Geriatric Cardiology 13, no. 4 (May 2016): 364-6,
http://www.jgc301.com/en/article/doi/10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2016.04.005.