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Study: Being Alone and Unhappy Could Be Worse On Health Than Smoking

Researchers from Deep Longevity, Stanford University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong studied the impact of loneliness, restlessness and unhappiness on the aging body. Their findings suggested that these negative emotional predicaments may have a greater effect on health than smoking tobacco. The shocking study published in the journal Aging shows that being lonely and unhappy ages a person faster than smoking. Loneliness, unhappiness and hopelessness added up to a year and eight months to someone’s age — five months more than smoking. “Your body and soul are connected — this is our main message,” said Fedor Galkin, a co-author of the study and lead scientist at the Hong Kong startup Deep Longevity. Feeling lonely or unhappy was found to be the most significant factor of rapid decline, increasing one biological age by 20 months. Smoking followed by adding about one year and three months to one’s age.

Link: New York Post

Sad lonely girl sitting on stairs

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