These outcomes include economic activity, for example, entrepreneurial startup rates, and also crime rates, health behaviors, and health outcomes.

这些结果包括经济活动，例如创业率，以及犯罪率、健康行为和健康结果。

The chronic stress of racism can have people leaning on negative health behaviors like smoking and drinking.

长期遭受种族歧视压力会让人们更容易染上吸烟和饮酒等不良行为。

But we also know that changing health behaviors is very difficult.

但我们也知道，改变健康行为非常困难。

This single story reflects a fundamental weakness in our approach to improving health behavior.

这个单一的故事反映了我们改善健康行为的方法中的一个根本弱点。

Instead, perhaps the most powerful influencers of health behavior are our social interactions.

相反，也许对健康行为最有影响力的是我们的社交互动。

We found no relationship between the average person's self-perception of weight and labor market outcomes, although self-perceived weight can influence self-esteem, mental health and health behaviors.

我们没有发现一般人对体重的自我感知和劳动力市场结果之间的关系，尽管自我感知的体重会影响自尊心、心理健康和健康行为。

Education and health literacy play a role in influencing health behaviors and decision-making.

教育和健康素养在影响健康行为和决策方面发挥着作用。

The concept of personal choice in relation to health behaviors is an important one.

就健康行为而言，个人选择这个概念至关重要。

As a typical doctor, I expected them to just inform and hopefully lead to better health behaviors.

作为一名典型的医生，我希望他们只是告知并希望导致更好的健康行为。

So we asked the question: What if we could create a resource that could motivate people to change health behavior?

所以我们问了一个问题：如果我们可以创造一种可以激励人们改变健康行为的资源呢？

The researchers conceded that the link found in the new study was not as strong when they factored in the effects of certain health behaviors, including exercise levels, sleep habits and diet.

研究人员承认，当把锻炼水平、睡眠习惯和饮食等健康行为产生的影响考虑进去之后，这项新的研究发现乐观和长寿之间的关联并没有那么大。

We know that we can be much more effective at improving health behavior if we work with the irrational parts of our nature instead of ignoring them or fighting against them.

我们知道，如果我们处理我们本性中的非理性部分而不是忽视或对抗它们，我们可以更有效地改善健康行为。