It is now a proven fact that travel is good for health and longevity. Recent research from UCL in London published in Neuroscience News points out that those who travel more outside of their local areas (more than 15 miles) reported feeling healthier than those who stay close to home.
"Traveling has been associated with a decrease in heart disease risk, lower stress levels, and improved physical activity and well-being," said Lindsay Boyers, CHNC, a functional nutritionist, in a recent GoodRx article.
Another study, which took place over nine years, was published by Psychosomatic Medicine and found that those who vacationed every year had about 30% less risk of dying from heart disease, and a 20-year-long Framingham Heart Study revealed that those who took just one vacation every six years were about 2.5 times more likely to suffer a heart attack than those who took a time-out at least once per year.
Additionally, the farther you travel, the happier you are, according to a Harvard Business Review, which reported that 84% of "the best trips over the past five years were to locations outside of the country," and that 94% of participants in a study found "traveling during the vacation to be more meaningful than a vacation."
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