Hey, good morning.

Welcome to the worldwide broadcast at the Ted Nostabbrower show, bringing you the latest world news and health research.

So glad you're here with today.

So glad that you're doing great over the holidays, I believe you are.

And this is an interesting thing they were talking about this morning.

It was talking about how people are lonely in the United States of America,

according to a survey of 3,000 adults.

And what's interesting about this is,

as Americans are growing lonelier,

according to new research for at least Wednesday,

even when they're not actually alone,

which I found kind of odd.

An increasing number of middle Asian older adults, especially those in their 40s and 50s,

are lonely, according to a report released by the AARP, a nonprofit advocacy group for older Americans.

Among the loneliest are adults from 45 to 49 years old.

That's odd to me, especially if they're married and they've got children.

49% identified as lonely as well as respondents who never married, 62% were married, lonely

and are not working.

57% were lonely whose household income fell below 25,000 a year.

63% are lonely. The findings are based on the

surveys of more than 3,000 U.S. residents ages 45 and older, conducted in August the 25th,

28, and 2010. Data was collected through an online research and panel representation of the

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