Connect and Live Longer
Our health is not just
physically no disease and no pain at all. It is also essential to connect to
people. Making connections is what make our brain growing and flourishing. The
brain delights in and learns from these new friends from senses.
It is a scientific fact people who connect
live longer. In the Lawrence Katz and Manning Rubin book, “Keep Your Brain
Alive” quotes “study show that people who stay socially and physically active
has longer life spans.” This doesn’t
means hanging out with the same old crowd and puddling around on an exercise
bike. It means getting out and making new friends.
In Edward M. Hallowell
book called “Connect” cites the 1979 Alameda County Study by Dr. Lisa Berkman
of Harvard School of Health Sciences. Dr. Berkman and her team carefully looked
at 7000 people, age 35 to 65, over a period of nine years. Their study
concluded that people who lack social and community ties are almost three times
more likely to die of medical illness than those who have more extensive
contacts. And all this is independent of socioeconomic status and health
0practices such as smoking, alcoholic beverage consumption, obesity, physical
activity.
Quoted from Nicholas
Boothman’s book “How to make people like you in 90 seconds or less”
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