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How Your Choice of Mate May Affect Your Health - and Your Eating
- “Your spouse’s depression could raise your own risk of chronic pain.” This conclusion includes the caretaking of a depressed mate.
- Although a female nagging her male partner may improve his health, this isn’t true the other way around. For women, “nagging is just nagging.”
- It can enhance your health as a female, if your partner is optimistic. The article didn’t report that having a pessimist for a mate would hurt your health, but it might, if you’re constantly stressed by trying to get him or her to see the glass as half full.
- “…the way you argue with your significant other could make you sick. If loud, angry outbursts are your arguing style,” you could be increasing your risk of cardiac problems. If you “silently fume or stonewall your partner,” you might be risking getting back or neck problems.
- Contrary to what we might think, partners “who decided to diet together had a rougher time of it” as “one partner’s success could derail the other partner who then became less successful at controlling his or her own food portions.”
- A mate with health problems puts you at greater risk, at least with type 2 diabetes, “possibly because of shared bad habits like poor diet and not enough exercise.”
- Being a spousal care-giver of a stroke victim, “can affect the mental and physical health…not only during the first years, but up to seven years afterward.”
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