Study: loneliness can kill you

According to a new study: loneliness can kill, literally. Researchers at Brigham Young University found that loneliness is deadlier than obesity. The study showed that lonely people had a 50 percent increased risk of early death. “Extreme examples show infants in custodial care who lack human contact fail to thrive and often die, and indeed, social isolation or solitary confinement has been used as a form of punishment," author Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad