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Zooeyia: The Positive Health Benefits of Animals in our Lives

A woman running with a dog
Did you know a pet can improve your family’s health? Zooeyia (ZOO-ey-ah) is a recently invented word to describe the health benefits of pets. This new word was coined from the Greek root words for animal (zoion) and health (from the Greek goddess of health, Hygeia). The inventors of the word consider it the opposite