7 facts about the benefits of shopping

Scientists from Taiwan came to the conclusion that shopping trips have a positive effect on human health, namely, increase life expectancy. However, this is far from the only achievement of modern shopping.

Today, on Black Friday - the day the Christmas sales start around the world, we have collected not quite serious, but the most convincing facts about the benefits of shopping.

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1. Shopping is the best cure for blues, because you can always invite friends to go shopping and spend time in good company. Our mothers and grandmothers made a trip to the store when it was necessary to purchase this or that wardrobe item, and we visit the trading floors and make purchases, because we like the process itself.

2. “Shopping is much better than psychotherapy. The price is one, but you stay with the dress,” says one of the characters in Sophie Kinsella’s book The Secret World of the Shopaholic. That is, in a sense, shopping can also help save money, well, if you have a choice between a psychologist and a dress. On the other hand, the very fact of acquiring a new thing always leaves a pleasant feeling in the soul of a person.

3. “If everyone could wear new clothes every day, depression would disappear from the face of the earth,” says the same character. Of course, we are also pleased with the further process of using (wearing, applying) these same purchases. And when a new thing really suits us, and others give us compliments - this acts as a kind of dope for mental health, it becomes a guarantee of self-confidence.

4. We are so arranged that when purchasing goods at special offers or at a discount, we get great pleasure, which can even be compared with sexual arousal (remember that same gleam in the eyes of a friend or a strange blush on her face).

5. Psychologists also consider the fact of spontaneity and unpredictability in the shopping process to be extremely useful, oddly enough, we are much more pleased with unplanned purchases than those for which we specifically go to the store. Spontaneous acquisition is a pleasant surprise, which only enhances the positive perception of what is happening. Here you can also draw an analogy with the extraction of a trophy during a hunt - if suddenly we managed to “grab” something special, then we ourselves are pleased, and our loved ones are happy and grateful to such a “getter”.

6. In the process of running around the shops in search of a purchase, the body is subjected to moderate physical activity, that is, shopping even replaces the gym with an instructor and other expenses. Scientists from Taiwan went even further: according to a study conducted by the National Institutes of Health of the country, the death rate among older people who go shopping once a week or more is 27% less than those who do not like shopping. The researchers followed the survey participants for 9 years.

“In any case, shopping brings as much benefit as morning exercises,” experts say.

7. Shopping is more useful for men than for women!

“The study broke the stereotypes about shopping,” the authors of the same study of Taiwanese experts note. So, scientists argue that the positive effect of the shopping process was noted to a greater extent in men than in women. Male shopaholics die 28% "less frequently" than shopaholics a couple of times a month; for women, the figure is 23%.

But experts also admit the possibility of influence on the life expectancy of the nature and temperament of a person, his activity and vigor, which make him "run to the shops."