Living in a land that offers plenty; plenty of food, transportation, entertainment, and easy access to the electronic age leaves a burning question for me. What are we lacking if so many things are so easy to obtain?

What could we be lacking when cars, buses, fast food, movie theaters and golf courses are everywhere. How have human connections been impacted? I'm not referring to a 30 second conversation when ordering a meal with the waiter, or even a longer "relationship" with the person who is selling us a car.

I have to wonder in what ways our familial and close community ties have been impacted and if so, has that also made any difference in our health?

Luckily, there are many number of popular researchers who also think of the same questions. And they do also have the fire to find the answer.

This community had similar eating habits as of their neighbors, this study has been conducted for nearly 30 years in 1950's. In a town called Roseto, Pennsylvania a study has been conducted among an Italian-American community and this is called "The Roseto Effect".

In short, the study found that these people had longer life spans and were overall much healthier than their neighboring counterparts. This was true in spite of the aforementioned risk factors including smoking and lack of regular exercise.

This group of people has been genetically gifted that has been concluded in the study. But the younger generation of this group saw their health declining. In the initial stage they maintained close relation within family and community and they also maintained good health. But once they came out of the family and community their health started to deteriorate.

Love and affection showered upon a person will have direct and positive effect on his health even though he has some traditional bad habits in him. This what I advocated in my previous article on how the love and affects shown by our pets have positive results on our health.

We do not have to be part of a large family to inject ourselves into a community. We may just have to be a little more creative and open in order to acquire the sense of community. Watching a movie can be great entertainment, but it is a very solitary activity which requires no interaction with anyone else.

On the other hand, discussing a movie, book and personal values with others does create a connection. Asking the waiter where he or she is from or going to school etc. rather than just inquiring about today's special also initiates closer personal ties.

Being self entertained can still be good and force some internal reflection in understanding who we are as people. But denying these very important family or community ties will ultimately shorten our lives unless we tend to them the way we might tend to our cars insuring they are clean and running properly.

Regular exercise and food with less fat is always advised. It also recommended to all of us to treat our relationships inside the family with utmost care and love.

I would also like introduce all my natural alternative health program. All these programs contain easy to use exercises and comes with proven results. It may help some of your dear ones who are suffering from the ailments.



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