{"product_id":"the-rabbit-effect-live-longer-happier-and-healthier-with-the-groundbreaking-science-of-kindness-9781501184277","title":"The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e groundbreaking and life-changing work based on the latest research effectively demonstrates \"the profound impact that love, connection, and kindness have on our health\" (Mark Williamson, PhD, director of Action for Happiness).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Columbia University doctor Kelli Harding began her clinical practice, she never intended to explore the invisible factors behind our health. But then there were the rabbits. In 1978, a seemingly straightforward experiment designed to establish the relationship between high blood cholesterol and heart health in rabbits discovered that kindness--in the form of a particularly nurturing post-doc who pet and spoke to the lab rabbits as she fed them--made the difference between a heart attack and a healthy heart. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Dr. Kelli Harding reveals in this eye-opening book, the rabbits were just the beginning of a much larger story. Groundbreaking new research shows that love, friendship, community, and our environment can have a greater impact on our health than anything that happens in the doctor's office. For instance, chronic loneliness can be as unhealthy as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day; napping regularly can decrease one's risk of heart disease; and people with purpose are less likely to get sick. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt once paradigm-shifting and empowering, \u003ci\u003eThe Rabbit Effect\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates vital public health research showing kindness in our day-to-day lives can make the \"world a healthier, happier place. I recommend this book highly for anyone who wants to live more healthfully\" (Christy Turlington Burns, and CEO of Every Mother Counts).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarding, Kelli:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Dr. Kelli Harding is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. She is a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, as well as boarded in the specialty of psychosomatic (mind-body) medicine. Kelli works in the emergency room at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and has appeared on \u003ci\u003eToday\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGood Morning America\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMedscape\u003c\/i\u003e, WFUV's Cityscape, and US News \u0026amp; World Report.","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50631344390418,"sku":"9781501184277","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0539120f-4ff0-4d8d-b209-0e56880fe90d.jpg?v=1732770076","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-rabbit-effect-live-longer-happier-and-healthier-with-the-groundbreaking-science-of-kindness-9781501184277","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}