Social Interaction

One street: On a Tuesday night our local butcher comes to the village, for many this is the only person they have seen all day, there is alway a queue as everyone tells their news, listens to others and hears the latest gossip. You you want to know anything that is happening within a 20 miles radius, you ask the butcher.

"The idea that a lack of social relationships is a risk factor for death is still not widely recognized by health organizations and the public....When someone is connected to a group and feels responsibility for other people, that sense of purpose and meaning translates to taking better care of themselves "

Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review."

Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Timothy B. Smith, J. Bradley Layton.
PLoS Medicine, 7(7): e1000316; July 2010.
DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316


Thank you for yesterday, you guys are great.