Jodi Stott: Social Media Improves Your Health!

That's right, you heard me correctly. Researchers from Brigham Young University reviewed 148 studies that tracked the social habits of more than 300,000 people. They found that people who have strong ties to family, friends or co-workers have a 50 percent lower risk of dying over a given period than those with fewer social connections, according to the journal Plos Medicine.

WARNING-having weak social ties is dangerous to your health!

"The researchers concluded that having few friends or weak social ties to the community is just as harmful to health as being an alcoholic or smoking nearly a pack of cigarettes a day. Weak social ties are more harmful than not exercising and twice as risky as being obese, the researchers found. " read more at the New York Times "A New Risk Factor: Your Social Life".

So Facebook is in fact increasing your life span. There was another article I read about Facebook and Nursing Homes. I was saying the Facebook was turning that industry upside down.

Here is an expert:

"The #1 reason people die is their friends have died or been dispersed to the four winds; their family doesn’t visit them anymore, and they have no more reason to get up in the morning. I’m sure all of us have visited long-term care facilities and seen the blank stares and hopelessness of aged people living out their last days.
Facebook has changed that. There are many, many 77 year old folks in nursing homes who now have 60 Facebook friends and interact with them on an hourly basis. This is literally extending life spans – to the point of wreaking havoc in the long-term care industry. This is because many of the payment models are based on people living only so long and their communities on Facebook are literally extending their lives." by Perry marshall

With that being said here is my new and APPROVED health regime: