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“Holt-Lunstad's team reviewed 148 studies that tracked the social interactions and health of 308,849 people over an average of 7.5 years. From these they worked out how death rates varied depending on how sociable a person was. Being lonely and isolated was as bad for a person's health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day or being an alcoholic*.” The Guardian



*Moraleja: los efectos negativos del consumo de tabaco se neutralizan fumando en buena compañía (cuántos más mejor).