Tag Archive for: Roseto
Video: Your Friends and Family May Save Your Life
A study done in the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda County) over a nine year period showed that the people with the highest quality and quantity of social support and connections had the lowest rates of sickness and death.
An eight year follow-up…
Video: Social Support Is Absolutely Essential For Health and Wellbeing
Researchers concluded that despite terrible health habits such as high fat diet, lack of exercise, chain smoking, excessive drinking, working in coal mines, the residents of Roseto, Pennsylvania in the 1950s were very healthy and had one sixth…
Cancer and Social Support
Social Support and the Immune System
Psychoneuroimmunology researchers have consistently found a positive correlation between social support and the immune system.
Medical researcher Dr. Janice Kiecolt-Glaser has proven that social support…