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Do Pets Really Boost Kids' Health?

Kids and pets go together like peanut butter and jelly, right?

Maybe not, a new study contends.

The research finding, called the largest of its kind, challenges the common belief that having a dog or cat in the home can benefit children's mental and physical health.

RAND Corp. researchers looked at data from thousands of children in pet-owning and pet-free homes in California. They considered more than 100 variables in adjusting their model of pet ownership and health.

Read more: https://consumer.healthday.com/general-health-information-16/pets-and-health-news-531/do-pets-really-boost-kids-health-725361.html

‘Loneliness epidemic’ set to become a public health crisis

Multiple recent studies have found that loneliness is set to reach epidemic proportions through the Western world by 2030. Now, one of the most prominent researchers in the field suggests that it will soon outstrip obesity as a public health crisis.

Julianne Holt-Lunstad of Brigham Young University in Utah, US, prepared new research to present to the 125th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, held in Washington DC this month.

Read more at: https://cosmosmagazine.com/society/loneliness-epidemic-set-to-become-a-public-health-crisis