Tag Archives: health
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Why a healthy marriage is good for the heart
August 22, 2011Telegraph (UK) 22 Aug 2011 Researchers from the University of Rochester in America found that 83 per cent of happily married women who had heart bypass operations lived on for another 15 years, compared with...
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Marriage, the key to a better life: Study finds tying the knot means improved health and longer life expectancy
January 28, 2011Daily Mail (UK) 28th January 2011 Marriage cheers you up, improves your diet and helps you live longer, researchers say. It brings better mental and physical health, reducing the chance of premature death by 15...
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Why a happy marriage can ease the pain of arthritis
November 11, 2010Mail Online (UK) 19th November 2010 A happy marriage helps ease the agony of arthritis, research suggests. Rheumatoid arthritis patients who had the support of a loving husband or wife reported less joint pain and...
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Married men live longer ‘as wives nag them to visit their GP’
March 11, 2010Daily Mail Reporter 30th March 2010 Married men may have longer lives because their wives nag them to see their doctor, research shows. And both men and women in committed relationships are more likely to...
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A happy marriage helps you sleep
June 11, 2008UK Telegraph 09 June 2008 Scientists have discovered that women in happy unions are more likely to have a better night’s sleep that their less content counterparts. Evidence presented at Sleep 2008, the 22nd Annual...
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Married couples are healthier and live longer – and so do their children
October 11, 2007Daily Mail (UK) 5th October 2007 Married couples live longer and enjoy better health, according to the Office for National Statistics. ONS figures found that widowed men and single mothers suffered the worst health, with...