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Is your social network sabotaging your health?

By Deborah Kotz

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 06, 2012

If you’re looking to lose weight or exercise more, perhaps you need to take a good hard look at your social network, the friends, family, and co-workers that influence how you eat, spend leisure time, and prioritize what’s important in life. Both good habits and bad can spread like the flu through that circle of your closest connections, and the latest research is showing that changing a poor network can improve our health.

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