(Men)Want to live longer? Marry a smart woman!

[Zeus]

Want to live longer? Marry a smart woman

Reuters | 10/08/2009 5:15 PM

NEW YORK - Men wanting to enjoy a long life should marry a well educated woman, according to a Swedish study.
Researchers from the Swedish Institute for Social Research in Stockholm found that a woman's education was a stronger factor in her husband's risk of dying over the next decade or so than the man's own level of education.
But a husband's social class based on his occupation had a greater influence on a woman's survival than her own occupational class, according to researchers Robert Erikson and Jenny Torssander.
"Women traditionally take more responsibility for the home than men do, and, as a consequence, women's education might be more important for the family's lifestyle -- for example, in terms of food habits -- than men's education," said the researchers.
"We can assume that more highly educated women have better possibilities to find the important health messages that are around ... There are lots of health messages in the media and I think some of them are important and some are just misleading," they said.
Erikson told Reuters Health that living with a partner is known to reduce a person's risk of dying early and the current study suggests that one's choice of life partner may be an important part of the equation.
He said the effect of a partner's social status is multi-dimensional, with education, income, occupation and status each having an independent effect.
Education's strong effect
Erikson and Torssander's study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, looked at 1990 census data on more than 1.5 million employed men and women, aged 30 to 59, who were living with a partner, along with cause of death data for the period 1991 to 2003.
As expected, for both men and women mortality was higher for less educated people and for those who made less money, while lower social status and working in a lower-level occupation were also tied to a greater risk of death.
Men who hadn't reached high school were 1.1 times more likely to die during follow-up than men who'd finished college.
But the education of a man's partner had a stronger effect than his own schooling. Men living with a woman without any high school education were 1.25 times more likely to die than men living with a college graduate.
The effect of women's education on their own mortality was strong too.
While a woman's own occupational class had little effect on her risk of death, women married to unskilled manual and routine non-manual laborers were 1.25 times more likely to die than women whose partners were in higher managerial and professional occupations.
The researchers said the men's social class had less of an effect when the researchers accounted for income while income was important in mortality for both women and men.
"This points very clearly to material conditions in the household," said Erikson.
as of 10/08/2009 5:15 PM

Ano sa palagay niyo?

[chua_riwap]

NEW YORK - Men wanting to enjoy a long life should marry a well educated woman, according to a Swedish study.

Researchers from the Swedish Institute for Social Research in Stockholm found that a woman's education was a stronger factor in her husband's risk of dying over the next decade or so than the man's own level of education.

So ilang taon na lang pala buhay ni Eddie Gutierrez.........

[Lucius]

Class and education can be acquired, but beauty? Nah. Smart nga and practical, panget naman? What the hell can you do with an ugly partner? And why does a man need a smart woman? That's like being dependent.

Dun nalang ako sa maganda na medyo smart lang na updated with current events. At least sure na walang palpak sa offspring

[ghosthunter]

Wala yan sa longevity secret ni Dolphy.

[woohoo]

Wala yan sa longevity secret ni Dolphy.

On the contrary, that's precisely the reason for his longevity! Smart women went for his money. :hysterical:

[4wrider]

Class and education can be acquired, but beauty? Nah. Smart nga and practical, panget naman? What the hell can you do with an ugly partner? And why does a man need a smart woman? That's like being dependent.

Dun nalang ako sa maganda na medyo smart lang na updated with current events. At least sure na walang palpak sa offspring

Beauty and brains are not mutually exclusive. And both, by the way, can be acquired with beauty more readily available through medical technology.

However, most artificially "intelligent" (yung bang puro degrees) and artificially beautiful tend to be lacking in character. Walang inner beauty and wisdom.

For me, I thank God everyday for providing me a virtuous wife who is both naturally beautiful and naturally smart.

[Memphis Raines]

This reminds me of an old joke.

Man 1: "Hey buddy! How's it been? How's your smart wife?"

Man 2: "Well I'm okay. Oh her? She got smarter. She left me."