Long live oscar

Julia Roberts and Russell Crowe have even more to smile about since taking home Hollywood's top prize. Research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine (May, 2001) indicates that Academy Award-winning actors live almost four years longer than their non-winning counterparts. While the poor statistically have shorter life spans than the middle-class or the wealthy, scientists at the Women's Health Center in Toronto wanted to discover whether personal achievement and success had any effect on a person's health and longevity.

Researchers looked at all 762 actors and actresses who have ever been nominated for an Oscar. On average, the winners lived to be 79.7, non-winners topped out at 75.8, and multiple award-winners lived six years longer than those who never went home with Oscar. These findings prompted the investigators to conclude that success, confidence and acknowledgement by your peers play more than a supporting role in living a long healthy life.

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