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It's called Research from Harvard Recommends Surprising Health Hack.

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I'm Rebecca McLaughlin.

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Imagine someone hands you a box of pills. You open it, and 52 neatly laid out tablets meet your eyes.

If you're young and healthy, you might think, I don't need these.

You either throw them out or stash them in a box somewhere for future use.

If you're older, or suffer from chronic, physical or mental illness, you may be more intrigued.

What if this is just the medication you're looking for? You read the printed information in the

pillbox and it claims this medication, if taken at least weekly, could elongate your life expectancy

by seven years, significantly increase your chance of happiness, and substantially reduce the likelihood you'll suffer from depression.

Thinking this is too good to be true, you check the side effects.

They're listed as a greater sense of meaning,

greater likelihood of volunteering,

and more generosity toward those in need.

Once again, you're skeptical.

This must be a scam.

You turn to the back of the box to see where this information comes from.

There you find that this medication has been extensively tested by none other than the Harvard School of Public Health.

Would you take the pills?

In a 2016 article for USA Today, Harvard School of Public Health Professor, Tyler Vanderbiel, and journalist John Sineff posed this question.

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