Marriage helps you live longer.

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Marriage helps you live longer.

• Dr Robert Kaplan
• Richard Kronick
• University of California Los Angeles
• August 10, 2006

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• People who never marry are far more likely to die
  prematurely than those who get hitched or
  divorced, say US researchers.

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• Bachelors aged between 19 and 44 were more than
  twice as likely to die as their married male
  peers.

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• The authors of the study in the Journal of
  Epidemiology and Health say loneliness is the
  killer rather than alcohol or cigarettes.

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• Single people were only slightly more likely to
  smoke than marrieds and were less likely to drink
  regularly.

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• They also exercised more and were less overweight.

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• The studies authors believe that people who never
  marry are less likely to have a good social
  support network and become isolated, which, in
  turn, knocks years off their lives.

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• Indeed, the risks of being never married, in
  terms of odds, rival the risks of having
  increased blood pressure or high cholesterol.

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• Never marrieds were 58 more likely to have died
  than peers who were married and living with their
  spouse in 1989.

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• Those who had been widowed were almost 40 more
  likely to die.

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• And those who had been divorced or separated were
  27 more likely to die.