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Humans are social animals, and most of us
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our relationships with family and friends. An emerging
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of research suggests that relationships can keep us healthier. And a new study finds those social
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may also help us live longer.
This new study combined a large number of previous studies and concluded that a
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of social interactions ranks right up with smoking and obesity
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a risk factor for death. Researchers from Brigham Young University
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148 studies with a total of some 300,000 participants, tracking their social relationships and
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they survived to the end of their particular study, which averaged about seven years.
"Those who scored higher on those measures of social relationships were 50 percent more likely to be
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at that follow-up than people who scored low on those measures," said Professor Julianne Holt-Lunstad, one of the authors of the study.
She pointed out several ways relationships can
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our health. They can help us cope with stress. They can help us maintain healthy habits
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eating well, exercising or seeing a doctor. And there"s increasing research that shows a direct but poorly-understood link between relationships and physiological processes in the body.