article_snippet.sent: If you want to stay healthy, try saying 'thank you' more often.
article_snippet.sent: Feeling grateful can improve the health of our hearts, according to a new study.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers found that heart patients who expressed gratitude for the positive things in Researchers life had improved mental, and ultimately physical, health.
article_snippet.sent: Heart patients who expressed gratitude for the positive things in their life had better mental and physical health, a study found .
article_snippet.sent: The 186 patients were assessed for The 186 patients levels of gratitude using standard psychological tests.
article_snippet.sent: We found that more gratitude in The 186 patients was associated with better mood, better sleep, less fatigue and lower levels of inflammatory biomarkers related to cardiac health,’ said Professor Paul Mills, from the University of California.
article_snippet.sent: To further test Patients who were more grateful findings, the researchers asked some of Patients who were more grateful to write down three things for which the researchers were thankful most days of the week for eight weeks.
article_snippet.sent: We found that those patients who kept gratitude journals for those eight weeks showed reductions in circulating levels of several important inflammatory biomarkers, as well as an increase in heart rate variability while as well wrote,’ said Professor Mills.
article_snippet.sent: It seems that a more grateful heart is indeed a more healthy heart, and that gratitude journaling is an easy way to support cardiac health.
highlights_snippet.sent: Heart patients who were more grateful had improved physical health .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Heart patients who were more grateful also had better moods, better sleep, and less fatigue, experts found .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Writing a 'gratitude journal' is also linked with better heart health, experts said .