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Researchers Say This Common Feeling Is More Dangerous Than Smoking 15 Cigarettes a Day
- Anna Mae
- Aug 15, 2016
- 1 min read
''You've probably experienced loneliness at some point: after a breakup, when you move to a new city. But did you know it poses serious health risks?
Researchers have confirmed that loneliness can be a deadly affliction — as lethal as diabetes or smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
“We need to start taking our social relationships more seriously,” Julianne Holt-Lunstad, the author of a Brigham Young University study on loneliness, said in a statement. “The effect of this is comparable to obesity, something that public health takes very seriously.”
The world is in the throes of an invisible loneliness epidemic, with 60 million sufferers in America alone...''
by Aimee Kuvadia
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