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Loneliness, it turns out, is as bad for your health as smoking, or being obese. The research that Prof. Cacioppo has done with colleagues also adds to the growi
by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Loneliness, it turns out, is as bad for your health as smoking, or being obese. The research that Prof. Cacioppo has done with colleagues also adds to the growing body of work that shows how bad loneliness can be for your health. It shows that loneliness suppresses the immune system and cardiovascular function, and increases the amount of stress hormone the body produces. It causes wear and tear on a cellular level, and impairs sleep. As he writes in his book Loneliness, "these changes in physiology are compounded in ways that may be hastening millions of people to an early grave."
Can anyone link to any research supporting these claims?
- ginko 13y agoIt's generally weird to me that newspapers articles seem to be exempt from the expectation to cite their sources.
- bowlofpetunias 13y agoThey also consider themselves exempt from the common practice that text in quotes contains sentences the people quoted have actually said or written. I.e., the author may as well have pulled it out of her ass, and you would be none the wiser. That's old school quality journalism for you.
- EdwigePelagia 13y agoYeah this is pretty absurd. I've been "quoted" a few times in newspapers and they got my statements completely wrong. Just flat out changed the wording (and therefore meaning) of what I said. The Globe and Mail is as authoritative and reputable as they get, but this isn't saying much. The media is just a shit show in general. Having said that, even more pathetic is people who get their information from internet forums asking journalists to cite sources. The authority hierarchy goes like this: Academic writing > Books by credentialed people > YouTube videos by credentialed people > Websites by credentialed people > Newspapers > Yahoo! Answers > Hacker News comments > Wikipedia.
- 001sky 13y agoCrowd-sourcing citations, conventional wisdom, and syllabi seems rather distinct from "the authority hierarchy", and the ROI is far more massive the further up that food chain you are, right? probably worth keeping in mind...
- gngeal 13y agoThey got it from an anonymous source, obviously. ;-)
- danielharan 13y agohttp://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=cacioppo+loneliness http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=cacioppo+loneliness
- mikecane 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loneliness#Effects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loneliness#Effects A start.
- goblin89 13y ago> Chronic loneliness can be a serious, life-threatening health condition. At least one study has empirically correlated it with an increased risk of cancer, especially for those who hide their loneliness from the outside world,[34] and it is also associated with increased risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease.[35] I really don't follow the argument: living in major city also increases cancer risk, in order to justify calling loneliness “life-threatening health condition” one should really provide more relevant information.
- auctiontheory 13y agoThe starting point is to google: cacioppo loneliness <smoking> These searches turn up a bunch of widely-cited papers.