Mister Rogers shared a particular type of message that research shows could be good for your health

• Fred McFeely Rogers, of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," passed away in 2003, but his legend lives on, memorialized in a recent documentary about his television show. 
• He promoted love and kindness to millions of children who watched the program from 1968 to 2001. 
• His values have since proven to benefit people's mental health and happiness — people who are generous and volunteer their time for the benefit of others seem to be happier than those who don't. 
• Happy people tend to have fewer health complaints and live longer than those who are unhappy.

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The release of the Mister Rogers documentary, "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" calls to mind the essential message of Rogers' long-running children's program, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." Fred McFeely Rogers, who died in 2003, was also an ordained Presbyterian minister. Over the course of three decades on public broadcasting, he brought to millions of children what his faith's General Assembly referred to as "unconditional love."

In preaching love, Rogers wasn't just attending to the moral character of his youthful audience. He believed that he was also promoting their health. As he said in 1979, "My whole approach in broadcasting has always been, 'You are an important person just the way you are. You can make healthy decisions.' Maybe I'm going on too long, but I just feel that anything that allows a person to be more active in the control of his or her life, in a healthy way, is important."See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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