Being Single Is More Dangerous in Men than Obesity, It Will Kill You Faster

Having a partner can be a matter of life or death; This is bad news for those unfortunate in love: loneliness can kill them sooner than obsession.

Psychologists, doctors and other researchers say that loneliness is becoming a public health problem, because people who can not have a stable partner develop a series of symptoms and clinical pictures that shorten their life expectancy.

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Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstand, of Brighan Young University, analyzed more than 218 studies on loneliness, obesity and health. Their conclusions were that people with obesity have a risk of premature death of 30 percent, while the risk of singles is 50 percent. The isolation can be deadly, according to the specialist:

Being connected with others socially is considered a fundamental human need, crucial for well-being and survival. Extreme examples show that babies isolated in custody, lacking human contact, do not thrive and often die, and in fact, social isolation or solitary confinement has been used as a form of punishment.

At the Weill Cornell Medicine Center in New York this was confirmed by Dr. Dhruv Khullar, who claims that social isolation causes sleep disturbances, abnormal immune responses and accelerated cognitive impairment.

Also the study brain  aging of Dr. Nancy J. Donovan at Harvard, says that depression associated with loneliness is a common factor that causes cognitive impairment of different severity, from mild to dementia. According to her, loneliness could be a pre-Alzheimer's symptom.

In addition to the damage to the health of people, this situation also affects the economy because those who develop diseases due to isolation have to be cared for by public health systems.

In places like the United Kingdom, loneliness is becoming a silent and deadly epidemic; there it has costs of up to 26 million dollars per year in physical and mental health treatments.

This is quite alarming. According to experts, you should not worry if you are a little (or rather) overweight; You are more likely to have a short life for being a  forever alone.