Smart Wives Improve Men's Lives

The Sidney Morning Herald ^ | October 6, 2002

[FreedomPoster]

Being married to an intelligent woman could be a man's best chance of avoiding an early grave, it is claimed.

New research suggests that having a well-educated wife helps lower a husband's blood pressure, reducing the risk of heart attack by up to half.

It is also claimed brainier women enforce better lifestyles in the family, encouraging partners to follow a good diet, stop smoking and seek medical advice.

The study, details of which are published in the latest issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology, found a strong link between the total years of education a wife had and the health of her spouse.

The effect was seen in all couples, regardless of how educated a husband was, except for those men who had very little formal education.

The research was based on a sample of 20,000 married men aged 35 to 56 in Norway.

[FreedomPoster]

Emphasis in the article added.

I married a born Republican, so I guess I instictively knew this.

I can't *wait* to see the response on this one. ;-)

[FreedomPoster]

My condolences to those of you married to Democrats. It sure would raise my blood pressure.

[FreedomPoster]

I thought I should ping you two to this one. ;-)

[daviddennis]

I lived with an intelligent Democrat for a while. She did help with the diet quite a bit.

But she kept on calling me "dumb" for my opinions, and that gets wearying after a while. Ann Coulter is absolutely right about their arguing style - when my Democrat didn't feel like debating me, she simply said my views (or Bush) were dumb without a shred of supporting evidence.

D

[martin_fierro]

I'm sure all this is true of Mrs. Fierro.

OTOH, I may end up sending her to an early grave. <|:)~

[elbucko]

This study of course, raises the opposite inquiry into what happens to those men who have married the less intelligent women. Perhaps Chas. Darwin might chime in with a hypothesis.

[Henchster]

"Smart Wives Improve Men's Lives"

Who said that, a woman?

[sauropod]

I noticed that the study did not correlate for BLONDE wives!

They like country music and bear whiz beer..... 'Pod

[governsleastgovernsbest]

In a related study, men who marry women with large mammary glands were found to live shorter but happier lives.

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[bert]

It works for me!!

[stevio]

I'm blessed to have married a beautiful and intelligent woman. Although a democrat before we married, she converted soon after. ;^)

[Saundra Duffy]

So true. So true.

[Uncle Miltie]

Explains why Islamo-fascists keep 'em dumb: It's a culture of death.

[Argh]

The nagging would kill this old bachelor VERY early.

[Styria]

She really is intelligent, then. =)

[shaggy eel]

,,, my smart wife wants me to tell you that you've actually sourced this from the Sydney Morning Herald.

[bankwalker]

Being married to an intelligent woman could be a man's best chance of avoiding an early grave, it is claimed.

New research suggests that having a well-educated wife helps lower a husband's blood pressure, reducing the risk of heart attack by up to half.

intelligent and well-educated are not necessarily synonymous.

[APBaer]

"Being married to an intelligent woman could be a man's best chance of avoiding an early grave..."

Much as she might make him yearn for it.