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Comfort Foods Help Alleviate Loneliness
Food Product Design: A new study in the journal Psychological Science suggests comfort foods can help fight loneliness. In the study, volunteers were asked to spend several minutes writing about a fight with a friend Visit Page
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How even just thinking about comfort food is good for the soul
The Daily Mail: Comfort food may be bad for the waistline but it is good for the soul, say researchers. A study found that even thinking about mashed potato, chicken soup or chocolate pudding can Visit Page
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Comfort Food Fights Loneliness
People who were generally secure in their relationships were able to mitigate feelings of loneliness by writing about a comfort food. Visit Page
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Isolating the Costs of Loneliness
Research shows that feeling lonely can affect both physical and mental health and it also reveals some strategies for combating these negative effects. Visit Page
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Observations
Those Were the Days: Counteracting Loneliness with Nostalgia With the days getting shorter (and colder) and the holidays quickly approaching, many of us start thinking back to days gone by. All of us are struck Visit Page
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Loneliness is Bad for Your Health
Psychologica scientists are disentangling social isolation, loneliness, and the physical deterioration and diseases of aging, right down to the cellular level. Visit Page
