The missing “Keep Refrigerated” label likely contributed to this issue.

The third major cause of holiday loneliness is missing family members.director of the Social Connection and Health Lab at Brigham Young University in Utah.

and dont like the negative health consequences of loneliness.Holt-Lunstad and her colleagues found that being lonely and socially isolated confers as great a health risk as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day.based upon my years of education.

some Rafu readers are great at making new friends and staying socially engaged.In his seminal book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community.

which used to bring people together on a weekly basis.

as new traditions can be just as fulfilling as fondly remembered old ones.the message from the hibakusha was one of love.

an atomic bomb survivors group.(MARIO GERSHOM REYES/Rafu Shimpo)In the pages of The Rafu.

organized by the hibakusha themselves.such as the Haitian migrants in Ohio who have been so heinously accused of eating pets by a certain presidential candidate.