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Old Nov 07, 2016, 05:00 PM
lazlo lazlo is offline
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Exercise and healthful eating are linked to better health—and so is having a decent circle of friends. Now it looks like that link between friends and better health is true for the major online social network, too: Facebook.

Researchers compared the health records of 12 million Facebook users to non-users, in California. After controlling for things like age, race, and gender, they found that being on Facebook was associated with a slightly lower risk of death in a given year.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/p...er-death-risk/
Thanks for this!
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