Friends the key to a healthy future: report
Although there’s lots of research to suggest that being affluent is good for your health, having friends could serve you better in the long run.
In fact, maintaining strong social relationships — friends, marriage or children — may be every bit as helpful in living longer as quitting smoking, losing weight or taking required medications, say researchers at Brigham Young University in Utah.
Pooling data from research papers involving more than 300,000 men and women across the developed world, the research team found that those with poor social connections had on average 50% higher odds of death in the study's follow-up period (an average of 7.5 years) than people with more robust social ties.
Having low levels of social interaction was equivalent to smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day, being an alcoholic, more harmful than not exercising, and twice as harmful as being obese.
The different studies measured social interaction in different ways, so the researchers admit that it’s difficult to precisely define its effects other than to say they are almost universally positive.
"Our social relationships are important not only to our quality of life, but also our longevity,” says Julianne Holt-Lunstad, one of the report’s authors.
“Throughout human history, we have relied on others for survival such as protection and food, and despite modern advancements that may help with certain aspects of survival so that we can live more independently, it appears that our relationships nonetheless still impact odds of survival."
What do you think: Can your social circle really make that much of a difference?
By Gordon Powers, MSN Money
Posted by: Steve | Aug 18, 2021 12:31:58 PM
Can your social circle really make that much of a difference? Of course, good friends help you make good food, life and financial decisions and make the heavy burden light. Bad friends... Well, just watch Top Gear when one of 'the boys' cars breaks down :)
Smile, time flies when you're having fun
Posted by: stephen harper | Aug 18, 2021 8:20:10 PM
i have no friends.
Posted by: agenzia modelle Verona | Aug 19, 2021 6:47:12 AM
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Posted by: well then... | Aug 19, 2021 9:05:12 AM
Good friends, are good. Bad friends are worse than a divorce. However, I agree with what the article is saying. I believe the complete body (physical, mental and spiritual) works together to be at it's ultimum.
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Posted by: seo southampton | Aug 21, 2021 4:29:33 AM
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