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I recently started reading "The Art and Science of Connection" by Kasley Killam, who argues that social health should be considered the equal to physical health
by lapcat 2y ago
I recently started reading "The Art and Science of Connection" by Kasley Killam, who argues that social health should be considered the equal to physical health and mental health as three essential, interdependent pillars of personal health, and lack of social connections can be as deadly as, say, smoking cigarettes, to the extent that shortens your life.
- kaiwen1 2y agoIs the "deadly" due to an increase in confounding factors related to social isolation – drinking, lack of exercise, etc? Or does merely being alone, while still maintaining an otherwise healthy lifestyle, shorten life?
- lapcat 2y agoThe latter, according to the author. For example: > In 1979, two epidemiologists published a paper that would trigger a seismic shift in the scientific community's understanding of and interest in the link between relationships and life span. Lisa Berkman, then at Yale University, and Leonard Syne at the University of California, Berkeley, followed nearly seven thousand adults for nine years. In that time period, men with fewer social and community ties were twice as likely to die—regardless of how physically healthy they were at the start of the study, their socioeconomic status, and whether they smoked, drank alcohol, were obese, exercised, or used preventative healthcare services. For isolated women, the risk of dying was closer to three times that of their connected counterparts.