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The Connection Between Your Health & Your Wealth

" Health and wealth may be more strongly connected than previously thought ." We ring in the New Year with hopes of being healthy, wealthy, and wise. A new study from researchers John W. Ayers of San Diego State University and Benjamin Althouse of the Santa Fe Institute and their colleagues suggests that health and wealth may be more strongly connected than previously thought. Suggested Reading Click on image The group examined Americans' Google search patterns and discovered that during the recent Great Recession, people searched considerably more frequently for information about health ailments. The kinds of problems indicated by the queries weren't life threatening, but they could keep someone in the bed a few days, like ulcers, headaches, and back pain. In total, the team found there were more than 200 million excess queries of this kind during the Great Recession than expected. "While it's impossible to uncover the motives for increased sear