Get married and live longer!
November 29th, 2006 by 
Eric
It seems that there is an extra benefit for you if you’ve been thinking about getting married. According to Dr. Manny Alvarez, educated, married men appear to live longer than their unmarried and les educated counterparts.
In one of the largest, longest, and most complete follow-up studies ever conducted on aging in men, the Honolulu Heart Program/Honolulu Asia Aging Study followed 5,820 men of Japanese ancestry living in Hawaii for 40 years. In examining the risk factors for healthy survival, they found that the most powerful socioeconomic factor was education. The study also found that men who had a marital partner during midlife tended to live longer, although these men did not appear to be healthier in very old age.
The study also noted several lifestyle factors that contribute to living longer.
Smoking and overconsumption of alcohol were the two most significant lifestyle factors which reduced long-term survival rates in men. While the study of men’s health is typically focused on diseases of the reproductive organs, conditions such as cardiovascular disease, or the shorter life expectancy for men compared with women, the journal notes elsewhere in the issue that focusing primarily on these concerns may cause an important aspect of many men’s lives to be overlooked: fatherhood.
Via Fox News
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