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Friends: A Healthy Investment

Americans are not making enough time for friends. Is it affecting our health? (The Washington Post)

July 2006

KEYWORDS: Relationships, Health, Life

Social isolation factors heavily into premature death these days. Ironically, as technology improves, people are drifting farther and farther apart. Can the health threats of loneliness push Americans into making more real friends? (Read this story in The Washington Post)

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