當你變老時發(fā)生的好事

當你變老時發(fā)生的好事

Forget wrinkles and gray hair. There are lots of reasons to celebrate each time you add a candle to your birthday cake. You gain wisdom and many other benefits with age.

忘掉皺紋和白發(fā)。每次你在生日蛋糕上放一支蠟燭都有很多理由慶祝。隨著年齡的增長，你會獲得智慧和許多其他好處。

Here's a look at just a few of the good things that come with growing older.

以下是一些隨著年齡增長而來的好事情。

An ability to manage social conflicts

管理社會沖突的能力

Researchers at the University of Michigan put this to the test. For their study published in the journal PNAS, they asked 200 participants to read "Dear Abby" letters and offer up their best advice. People in their 60s were better than their younger counterparts at coming up with multiple outcomes for a social conflict and were better at imagining different points of view, while preferring solutions that involved compromise.

密歇根大學(xué)的研究人員對此進行了測試。為了發(fā)表在《美國國家科學(xué)院院刊》上的這項研究，他們讓200名參與者閱讀“親愛的艾比”的信件，并給出他們最好的建議。與年輕人相比，60多歲的人更善于為社會沖突想出多種結(jié)果，也更善于設(shè)想不同的觀點，同時更喜歡妥協(xié)的解決方案。

From fewer headaches to greater self-esteem, there's more to look forward to with each added year than you might realize. (Photo: Tom Wang/Shutterstock)

An encyclopedic knowledge

百科知識

Psychologists often refer to two main types of intelligence: fluid and crystallized. Fluid intelligence is someone's ability to solve problems, learn new things and use logical thinking in unfamiliar situations.Crystallized intelligence, however, is based on what you've learned in the past. It makes use of information and skills you've already mastered.

心理學(xué)家經(jīng)常提到兩種主要的智力類型:可變智力和固化智力?？勺冎橇κ侵敢粋€人在不熟悉的情況下解決問題、學(xué)習(xí)新事物和運用邏輯思維的能力。然而，固化智力是建立在你過去所學(xué)的基礎(chǔ)上的。它利用你已經(jīng)掌握的信息和技能。

A greater sense of well-being

更大的幸福感

Older people are usually happier because they have less anxiety and stress. (Photo: Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock)

Older people often have increased financial well-being, so that takes the monetary element out of the stress equation. In addition, they tend to let go of negative emotions and focus on positive events.

老年人的經(jīng)濟狀況往往更好，所以這就把金錢因素從壓力方程中去掉了。此外，他們傾向于釋放消極情緒，專注于積極的事情。

An immunity window

一個免疫窗口

Little kids get sick all the time. They pass colds around at school and catch everything because their growing immune systems are still developing. The good news is that as you age, your adult immune system recognizes these microbes as they invade your body and forms an "immune memory."

小孩子總是生病。他們在學(xué)校里傳播感冒并感染一切，因為他們不斷增長的免疫系統(tǒng)還在發(fā)育。好消息是，隨著年齡的增長，當這些微生物侵入你的身體時，你的成年免疫系統(tǒng)會識別它們，形成一種“免疫記憶”。

Becoming more agreeable

變得更容易贊同他人

People get less grumpy as they age. (Photo: Olena Yakobchuk/Shutterstock)

Forget about getting older and crankier. As you age, there's a good chance you'll become more agreeable and easier to get along with.This even happened among men, which debunks the concept of "grumpy old men," said lead researcher and psychologist Sanjay Srivastava, Ph.D.

忘掉變老和變古怪吧。隨著年齡的增長，你很有可能變得更隨和，更容易相處。研究負責(zé)人、心理學(xué)家桑賈伊·斯里瓦斯塔瓦博士說，這種情況甚至在男性中也發(fā)生過，這就揭穿了“脾氣暴躁的老人”的概念。

Fewer migraines

更少的偏頭痛

Only 10% of women and 5% of men over 70 still report migraines, reports WebMD. And if you still have a migraine then, it may come without actually headache pain. As people get older, some may only experience migraines as visual or sensory disturbances without any pain.

據(jù)WebMD報道，在70歲以上的人群中，只有10%的女性和5%的男性仍然患有偏頭痛。如果你仍然有偏頭痛，那么它可能不是真正的頭痛。隨著人們年齡的增長，一些人可能只經(jīng)歷偏頭痛作為視覺或感覺障礙沒有任何疼痛。

Less sweat

少汗

You won't be as sweaty when you exercise. (Photo: kudla/Shutterstock)

A study in the Journal of Applied Physiology found that women in their 20s sweat more than women in their 50s and 60s. Researchers attributed the difference to either "a diminished response of the sweat glands to central and/or peripheral stimuli" or "an age-related structural alteration in the eccrine glands or surrounding skin cells."

發(fā)表在《應(yīng)用生理學(xué)雜志》上的一項研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，二十多歲的女性比五六十歲的女性出汗更多。研究人員將這種差異歸因于“汗腺對中樞和/或周邊刺激的反應(yīng)減弱”，或者“汗腺或周圍皮膚細胞的年齡相關(guān)結(jié)構(gòu)改變”。

Change in self-esteem

自尊心改變

Long gone is the insecurity of youth. Self-esteem is highest right around age 60, research finds.That self-confidence stays strong for about a decade, then drops around age 90, often because of health reasons.

青春的不安全感早已蕩然無存。研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，60歲左右的人自尊心最強。這種自信會持續(xù)10年左右，然后在90歲左右下降，通常是因為健康原因。