If you're a guy and interested in living longer you may want to read this.
Marry a smart woman. I'm not throwing in a man card here but according to an article on Times Online, Swedish scientists have discovered that men married to smart women tend to live longer. Before we go further, it should be noted that this article was written by a woman or at least with somewhat anti-male sentiments. So this entire article could be bogus, but no one ever says, "hey i want to marry a girl who who is so dumb that if you asked her to boil an egg she would not know to add water first. Yes you can laugh cause this happened to a friend of mine who married girl like this just cause she was hot. Hot diminishes, stupid can last forever.
There is an interesting point although this article gives absolutely no research to back it up, but rather goes on a bit of a rant of having to look after a man.
Basically, a smart woman keeps her man in check. She makes sure he eats right, exercises properly (for example suggesting yoga over doing bench presses), and keeps warm in the winter while not doing too many stupid things like lighting fires in a tent.
There is some soundness to the argument. I would weigh bets more heavily that forcing a healthier diet on her husband is the main reason while keeping him out of trouble comes far behind as second.
A healthy diet is everything, and from being around some smart woman myself, we (yes I'm going to include myself in this one) do try to eat right. Our habits may not always come out as so, but we do know a lot about proper nutrtion. I'd bet you could pick any educated female off the street and ask her why fiber is important in our diet, and she'd be able to tell you. Ask a guy the same question, there will be some who can answer it, but there's a probably a good chunk out there who could care less.
Not to make any sweeping generalizations, but I think better educated people in general make better health choices.
So are females really that much better at making healthy decisions than men? Or are they just more cleaver at getting us to do stuff and we are not aware of it until it's done?
