文档介绍：红柚的功效朋友的功效
为了追求健康 ,很多人求助于医生、查询保健书或服用草药调理。
但他们忽视了能帮助他们对抗疾病、抗击抑郁、加速康复、减缓衰老
和延年益寿的一种强有力的武器 ―― 朋友。研究人员现在才开a 40-Year Friendship , Jeffrey Zaslow tells the story of 11 childhood friends who scattered from Iowa to eight different states. Despite the distance, their friendships endured through college and marriage, divorce and other crises. Using scrapbooks, photo albums and the women’s own memories, Mr. Zaslow chronicles how their close
friendships have shaped their lives and continue to sustain them. The role of friendship in their health and well-being is evident in almost every 2006, a study of nearly 3,000 nurses with breast cancer found that women without close friends were four times as
likely to die from the disease as women with 10 or more friends.
While many friendship studies focus on the intense relationships of women, some research shows that men can benefit, too. In a six-year study of 736 middle-age Swedish men, attachment to a single
person didn ’tappear to affect the risk of heart attack and fatal coronary heart disease, but having friendships did. Only smoking was as important a risk factor as lack of social support.
Exactly why friendship has such a big effect isn ’t entirelyclear. While friends can run errands and pick up medicine for a sick person, the benefits go well beyond physical assistance. Friendship clearl