Did you relocate away from family for a better job or another more interesting experience? Minus one

Not buying it. I like my non-immediate family (as in other than my wife and daughter) but if I didn't see them for several months it wouldn't bother any of us. Communications technologies and modern society mean that physical contact with our families isn't as important as it used to be for quite a lot of us.

Do you have fat friends? Plus one

This article is hokum.

I believe this goes against most recent studies which have discovered that people have a 'baseline' of happiness. Any changes in lifestyle only have an effect for a short period of time, until the person returns to their baseline.

http://www.philiplilly.com/blog/2009/01/11/even-if-you-fail-...

Whats most striking to me is that she hasnt researched Happiness in the eastern world. The whole buddhist religion is based on trying to find happiness. The best book that I read on the subject was "The Art of Happiness" by the Dalai Lama.