. . SPORTS MEDICINE : PSYCHOLOGY: ISSUES: Extreme Loneliness Worse than Obesity: Study . . Extreme Loneliness Worse than Obesity: Study Wednesday, February 19, 2014 08:54 AM EST Updated: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 09:03 AM EST Toronto Sunhttp://www.torontosun.com/2014/02/19/ extreme-loneliness-worse-than-obesity-study
. A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/nq9l8ot . .A long-term feeling of extreme loneliness can have a worse impact on increasing potentially lethal health risks than obesity, scientists claim.
.Chronic loneliness increases the chances of premature death by 14%, which is as much of an increase as that caused by being overweight and nearly as bad as poverty in terms of undermining an individual's long-term level of health.
.An increase in life expectancy mean more people are spending greater portions of their lives alone, and this is having a serious impact on both mental and physical health. Research suggests that at any given time between 20 and 40% of older adults feel lonely as people live alone or become isolated from relatives and friends, particularly during retirement.
. snip .A study of 2,000 Americans aged 50 or older which followed them over six years showed that the degree to which they felt lonely could be linked to their overall risk of death due to ill health at the end of this period.
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