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Having friends helps you live longer.
In one study, those who had the most friends over a 9-
year period cut their risk of death by more than 60%.
Source: anapsid.org
Friendship is good medicine.
Dr. Dean Ornish, a pioneer in reversing heart disease,
notes that no other factor in medicine - ''not diet, not
smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not
drugs, not surgery - has a greater effect on how often we
get sick than the healing power of love.''
Source: capecodonline.com
In one study, women saw “volunteer friends” regularly
throughout the year. 72 % had a remission in depression.
That's about the same success rate as antidepressants.
Source: psychologytoday.com
Friends are good for your heart and soul.
People with a strong social network are more likely to
survive a major illness such as a heart attack or cancer.
Human companionship can also help reduce the effects of
stress on the body, protect against illness, and help us heal
when we do get sick.
They're also less susceptible to chronic illnesses such as
heart disease, inflammatory bowel disease and arthritis.
Source: capecodonline.com
Smoking, obesity and loneliness
The famed Nurses' Health Study from Harvard Medical
School were so significant, the researchers concluded,
that not having close friends was as detrimental to your
health as smoking or carrying extra weight.
Source: anapsid.org
In one study, those who had the most friends over a 9-
year period cut their risk of death by more than 60%.
Source: anapsid.org
Friendship is good medicine.
Dr. Dean Ornish, a pioneer in reversing heart disease,
notes that no other factor in medicine - ''not diet, not
smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not
drugs, not surgery - has a greater effect on how often we
get sick than the healing power of love.''
Source: capecodonline.com
In one study, women saw “volunteer friends” regularly
throughout the year. 72 % had a remission in depression.
That's about the same success rate as antidepressants.
Source: psychologytoday.com
Friends are good for your heart and soul.
People with a strong social network are more likely to
survive a major illness such as a heart attack or cancer.
Human companionship can also help reduce the effects of
stress on the body, protect against illness, and help us heal
when we do get sick.
They're also less susceptible to chronic illnesses such as
heart disease, inflammatory bowel disease and arthritis.
Source: capecodonline.com
Smoking, obesity and loneliness
The famed Nurses' Health Study from Harvard Medical
School were so significant, the researchers concluded,
that not having close friends was as detrimental to your
health as smoking or carrying extra weight.
Source: anapsid.org
You will go through 396 friends in a lifetime but will have only 33 at any one time. Source: flatrock.org Studies show unequivocally that it's the friendship part of marriage that makes marriage last. Source: psychologytoday.com Best friends annoy each other less as they age. Source: Michigan Daily Online Modern friendship - the Silent Friend Very rarely do they speak on the phone, and they are even less likely to meet face to face. One in 3 people admit they have "silent friends" and say they make contact with them up to 4 times a day. Source: microsoft.com The Science of Friendship The many factors that influence an individual’s fate to meet an acquaintance and decide to become a friend are impossible to capture, but physicists have done it anyway and “with near precision”. “The idea behind our model, though simple, is different from the usual paradigmatic approaches,” Gonzalez told PhysOrg.com. “We consider a system of mobile agents (students), which at the beginning have no acquaintances; by moving in a continuous space they collide with each other, forming their friendships.” Using physical science to understand human interactions? Well, it was Social Statistics that guided the development of the kinetic theory of gases. I’m not sure what that means – but I feel a poem coming on – We are like molecular gases in the atmosphere… Source: physorg.com |
| What does this all mean? Stop counting your money and start counting your friends. Más vale un buen amigo que un peso en el bolsillo. So...... Will you be my friend? :) |
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Hours/week men spend
with friends: 10
Hours/week women
spend with friends: 7.5
Source: psychologytoday.com
with friends: 10
Hours/week women
spend with friends: 7.5
Source: psychologytoday.com
| Will you be my friend? by Jennese "La Diva" Torres |
| Must read! See excerpt on aarpmagazine.org Have tissues handy! |
