When doctors sit down, patient satisfaction goes up. The effect is real.
Sweat the small stuff: Small irritants destroy marriages.
People who socialize with heavy drinkers are more likely to become one.
If you could not smile or frown, would your ability to feel emotions be impaired? Apparently, Botox does just that.
Is it marriage or the quality of marriage that counts?
Contemporary studies…have shown that married people are less likely to get pneumonia, have surgery, develop cancer or have heart attacks. A group of Swedish researchers has found that being married or cohabiting at midlife is associated with a lower risk for dementia. A study of two dozen causes of death in the Netherlands found that in virtually every category, ranging from violent deaths like homicide and car accidents to certain forms of cancer, the unmarried were at far higher risk than the married…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nInE5TITzE8
Hollywood’s View of Marriage
This is Richard Posner, writing at the Becker-Posner Blog:
Marriage rates have declined steeply in the United States and other Western nations. The number of marriages in the United States in 1950, per one thousand population, was 11; it is now 7—and the number is much lower in Western European nations. Of Americans aged 25 to 44, 62 percent of women are married and 59 percent of men; 8 percent of women are cohabiting and 10 percent of men. Divorce is frequent; only two-thirds of American marriages last more than 10 years. Forty percent of children are born out of wedlock.
Explanation below the fold.
In 1950, less than three quarters of white college-educated women went on to marry by age 40 [compared with 90 percent of high-school graduates]. But today, 86 percent marry by age 40, compared with 88 percent of high-school grads… Modern college-educated women are more likely than other groups of women to be married at age 40, are less likely to divorce, and are more likely to describe their marriages as “happy” (no matter what their income) compared with other women.
Full article on why educated women have happier marriages.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NF5XU-k2Vk
For people who buy subsidized insurance in the health insurance exchanges, being single is better than being married:
For an unmarried couple with income of $25,000 each, combined premiums would be capped at $3,076 per year, under the House bill. If the couple gets married, with a combined income of $50,000, their annual premium cap jumps to $5,160 — a “penalty” of $2,084…
Under the Senate bill, a couple with $50,000 combined income would pay $3,450 in annual premiums if unmarried, and $5,100 if married — a difference of $1,650.
Two Seats for the Price of One. That’s what morbidly obese passengers are entitled to on Canadian airlines, according to Canada’s Supreme Court.
CEOs: Being Fat is Worse Than Being Uninsured. Obesity is more important than uninsurance, tort reform and the nursing shortage. [link]
Marriage Makes You Fat; Divorce Makes You Thin. Over two years, marriage adds 4.8 pounds (men) and 5.6 pounds (women). Divorce leads to a drop of 1.8 and 3.7 pounds, respectively. Couples that stay together become more similar with respect to weight. [study; gated, but with abstract] Hat tip to Jason Shafrin.
Does God Want You to Be Fat? It depends on who you ask.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOspCve9hY8
Billie Holiday
“All of Me”