Good Marriage – Good Health
Good Marriage Good Health but a Bad Marriage is Worse than staying Single. Contemporary studies have shown that married people are less likely to get pneumonia, have surgery, develop cancer or have heart attacks. A study of two dozen causes of death in the Netherlands found that in virtually every category, ranging from violent deaths like homicide and car accidents to certain forms of cancer, the unmarried were at far higher risk than the married.  However, One recent study suggests that a stressful marriage can be as bad for the heart as a regular smoking habit.   The results showed that the women in unhappy relationships and the women who remained emotionally hung up on their ex-husbands had decidedly weaker immune responses than the women who were in happier relationships.
The point is a good marriage is good for your health but a bad marriage can cause lots of health problems. One study looked at the time wounds took to heal under stressful situations. The results were remarkable. When couples argued, their wounds took, on average, a full day longer to heal than after the sessions in which the couples discussed something pleasant. If you are in a bad marriage however don’t just get divorced! A study of over 9,000 men and women at the University of Chicago, found that when the married people became single again — either by divorce or because of the death of a spouse — they suffered a decline in physical health from which they never fully recovered. These men and women had 20 percent more chronic health issues, like heart disease and diabetes, than those who were still married to their first husband or wife by middle age.  But in the Chicago study, people who had divorced or been widowed had worse health problems than men and women who had been single their entire lives. In formerly married individuals, it was as if the marriage advantage had never existed. It is better never to marry than have a bad marriage, for your health. This was taken from a New York Times article. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/magazine/18marriage-t.html <>< Mark
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