A Married Man is a Healthy Man
Reuters Health March 8, 2001

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It appears that marriage is good for men.

The results of a study done by Dr. Ichiro Kawachi of the Harvard School of Public Health is showing that widowed or divorced men are "more likely to drink, smoke, commit suicide, develop Alzheimer's disease, and die prematurely."

The study also shows that these guys "eat fewer vegetables, drink more alcohol, and are less likely to quit smoking than their married counterparts."

Divorced men were also more likely to smoke than their married peers but those who remarried were likely to quit, findings show. Widowed men were more likely than married men to drink heavily--more than 21 drinks a week. Newly single men also increased their consumption of fried foods outside the home."

Earlier studies reported that "divorce or marital separation more than doubled the risk of suicide in men but was unrelated to suicide risks in women."

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