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Hey guys I'm new here and I did a search and found no threads in regards to this article so if this is a double posting I apologize.
http://on.msnbc.com/AbM2iP (broken link)
Do you guys agree with the study? It seems to be a pretty thorough study since it states that: "The researchers analyzed the data from some 90 previous studies, which included about 500 million people, and compared the risk of mortality for singles from those studies — defined as those who never married — to that of a married group, excluding those who are divorced or widowed."
Last edited by elnina; 02-21-2012 at 11:29 PM..
Reason: Fixed the link
It's because they have nobody to vent to/relieve stress with. Duh. If you think about it, you lose about a year and a half of life for every decade you're single. That sucks.
I agree with it. If you are living alone and keel over, there is no one to call an ambulance. You will likely die younger, as a result. This has nothing to do with the supposed benefits of being married, just having someone around to call. This probably explains why wealthy people live longer too. All those servants around who are worried about losing their jobs.
It's because they have nobody to vent to/relieve stress with. Duh. If you think about it, you lose about a year and a half of life for every decade you're single. That sucks.
Actually, venting and relieving stress is part of it, but there is far more.
You'll also find that just looking at the average doesn't tell the whole story. Married couples have a "wider spread" than single folks. That means the "center point" or average for married couples is higher. That part was known way back in the '60s, that married couples live longer.
But, someone noticed that some married couples don't live any longer than single folks, while others live into their 90s and beyond. There was a study done a few years ago to try to identify what factors made the difference. The interaction and inter-dependence were expected to be important factors, but one of the things that was a major factor was sexual activity. Couples that were more active, more often, lived longer and had a better quality of life. Couples that were less active had more medical problems and didn't live as long.
What the study did not identify was whether it was the overall health of the couples that determined how sexually active they were of if the sexual activity determined the overall health. So it could have been that the frequency of sexual activity indicated better overall health to begin with. However.....
Off the record, a couple of the researchers suggest that, when looking at how exercise affects such things as heart health and diabetes, and how sexual activity measures up with walking, jogging, running, or working out in a gym, the frequency of sexual activity may well be THE major factor.
Sorry, I do not have a link for you folks. It's been more than a year since I read anything about that. But, if you look, I believe you may find it. I got to it from a news article on MSNBC, online.
It's because they have nobody to vent to/relieve stress with. Duh. If you think about it, you lose about a year and a half of life for every decade you're single. That sucks.
Oh, so single people don't have family, friends, or girlfriends/boyfriends to vent to/relieve stress with? Hmm...
Also, married people, especially married men, are almost always under constant pressure to provide for their families which drastically increases stress levels. Single people don't really have that level of responsibility so the claim that married people live longer because they have less pent up stress as a result of having someone to talk to is absolutely ridiculous.
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