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Having Friends Could Save Your Life

So grab that drink with your friend after work.

Here’s a new health risk to worry about as you get older: A lack of human contact.

According to researchers from Brigham Young University, low social interaction has the equivalent lifespan impact as:

smoking 15 cigarettes daily,

or being a raging alcoholic.

Cutting yourself off from others

is worse, even, than inactivity.

And twice as bad as obesity.

So, you better start making friends.

Read the full article here.

I wonder if cats count.

(via st)