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EARTHDATE: June 21, 2015

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REAL LIFE NEWS: MARRIAGE IS BETTER FOR MEN THAN WOMEN

by Hazed

The cliché is that women want to snare a man and get married, while men try to escape the matrimonial trap. But this may need to be turned on its head, because it turns out that all the benefits of marriage go to the groom and not to the bride – at least as far as health is concerned.

A new study by University College London, the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has found that men who get married are much healthier than single men, while women hardly benefit at all from getting married.

The study analysed information on over 10,000 people born in England, Scotland and Wales in the same week of spring 1958, and found that single men showed higher levels of biomarkers signifying a greater risk of breathing problems and heart problems when compared to married men; the difference between single and married women, however, was barely noticeable.

Getting a divorce didn’t have a harmful impact on future impact for either sex, so long as they found a new long-term partner.

“Numerous studies have found that married people have better health than unmarried people,” said Dr George Ploubidis, a population health scientist at the UCL Institute of Education. “However, our research shows that people who experience separation, divorce and remarriage, have very similar levels of health in middle age to those who are married.”

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/marriage-is-more-beneficial-to-men-than-women-study-finds-10315018.html

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