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Balding Subhuman
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The surgeon general says loneliness is as deadly as smoking
A new report finds a lack of connection is killing us — and suggests ways to fix it.
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A new report from the Surgeon General says that social isolation’s effects on mortality are equivalent to smoking up to 15 cigarettes every day. Social isolation (an objective measure of lacking connection to families, friends, and community) and loneliness (a subjective measure of feeling disconnected) contribute to a person having a higher risk of heart disease, stroke, anxiety, depression, and dementia, and make people more susceptible to infectious diseases.
I for one welcome it, I hope I die sooner rather than laterThe empirical evidence is consistent: More social connection is linked with better health outcomes and vice versa. The surgeon general’s report notes that one of the first large-scale epidemiological studies, conducted in the late 1970s, found that people with a low amount of social connection were more than twice as likely to die during the study period as people with high social connection, even after adjusting for age, health, and economic status.