Marriage - For Your Health!

Happy Home - Happy Marriage - Better Health

Well, I hope all you women are now showing affection to your family, feeding them food you like to eat and taking time to pee and poop.  You really will feel better.  Even you if are single and/or living alone - remember to hug a friend, eat a good meal and of course, take time to go to the bathroom.

Here is some documentation about married people feeling better just because they are married.  Why are great sums of time and money spent on the obvious?  Of course happily married people have a track record for a healthier life.  I do not have enough fingers and toes to count the times that sweet Tommy Wiles has pulled me through what would have been a health crisis, but instead, the crisis became just a (usually funny) memory.

I can list one of the ways why being married has health advantages; it is the constant reminders you get from your spouse!  Honey, please, go to the doctor and get something for that cough!  Darling, let's go for a walk together.  Sweetheart, let's have fruit for breakfast.  Did you take your vitamins this morning?  Just last week, Tommy offered me his extra set of ear muffs so my ears would not be cold as we went to work out together.  Sweet, huh?  I had rather do almost anything than go to the gym, but with his kind offer to use the extra pair of ear muffs, I could not refuse!  30 minutes in the gym?  No problem!

Best thing for a happier marriage/healthier life:
Do not go to sleep mad at each other or mad a anybody, for that matter.

In 1858, British epidemiologist William Farr studied the issue of being healthier due to being married and he concluded that the healthiest people were married peopled.  I think in 1858, the issue of whether the marriage was a happy marriage or an unhappy marriage did not enter into the equation.

A century and a half later, the same holds true, though.
According to the New York Times married people are less likely to get pneumonia, have surgery, develop cancer or have heart attacks. I like the Swedish study that shows being married at mid life is associated with a lower risk for dementia. 

Of course being married lowers your chances of dementia, especially for women!  Women have to know where everything is located, from car keys to incoming mail to the milk in the fridge.  This keeps us on our toes and our brains functioning.  Men have to know all the stuff about whatever it is women don't know about.  Together, man and woman, husband and wife, a happy team working together through life offers just one more way to enjoy better health!

Here is the running list of Health 4 Your Family suggestions:
Enjoy Affection and Food
Take time to Poop
Work on a having a Happy Marriage