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Medicine today focuses primarily on drugs and surgery, genes and germs. Yet love and intimacy are at the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well. If a new medication had the same impact, failure to 11 it would be malpractice. Connections with other people affect not only the quality of our lives but also our survival. Study after study finds that people who feel lonely are many times more likely to get cardiovascular (心血管的) disease than those who have a strong sense of connection and 12 .
In one study at Yale, men and women who felt the most loved and supported had 13 less blockage in their coronary arteries (冠状动脉). Similarly, researchers from Case Western Reserve University studied almost 10000 married men and found that those who answered "yes" to this simple question—"Does your wife show you her love?" had significantly less chest pain. And when researchers at Duke surveyed men and women with heart disease, those who were single and lacked close friends were three times as likely to have died after five years. In all three studies, the 14 effects of love were independent of other risk factors.
Awareness is the first step in healing. When we understand the connection between how we live and how long we live, it"s easier to make different choices. Instead of 15 the time we spend with friends and family as luxuries, we can see that these relationships are among the most powerful determinants of our well-being and survival.
Science is 16 the healing values of love, intimacy, etc.—values that are part of almost all 17 traditions as well as many secular ones. Being unselfish may be the most self-serving approach to life, for it helps free both the giver and 18 from suffering, disease and premature death. Rediscovering the wisdom of love and 19 may help us survive at a time when an 20 isolated world so badly needs it.
A. community F. drastic K. rebellion
B. compassion G. immediate L. recipient
C. describe H. increasingly M. spiritual
D. distractedly I. prescribe N. substantially
E. documenting J. protective O. viewing