CAN BEING SINGLE HURT YOUR HEALTH? watch out!

This article is not written to argue for any relationship status. It is just intended to explain the findings of some researchers on the effect of one’s relationship status on the person’s health. I know a lot of singles that are very healthy and also a lot of married people too. I have a first hand experience on the kind of effect being alone can have on our health. There was a time that I had a certain type of diarrhoeaand I was on medication for 3 days. I survived because of my training and probably the fear of death because I was stooling not less than 20 times a day. I was alone with nobody to take care of me. I lost my mum to a certain disease some years ago. She was sick for 3 days before she died. My parents slept in different rooms so nobody picked on the symptoms she was exhibiting especially my dad who was also a doctor. I have given 2 examples of both single and married with both showing us that loneliness can have an effect on our overall health. A new study shows that middle-aged women who had never married had an increased risk of heart diseaseand breathing problems, but to a lesser extent than unmarried men. In a study that was conducted in the united kingdom, they looked at more than 10,000 people born in England, Scotland, and Wales in the spring of 1958. Their relationship statuses were checked when they were 23, 33, 42, and 46. Nurses visited them at home to do health checks when they were between 44 and 46. Read: Home Remedies For Your Stretch Marks The researchers found that: *.About two-thirds of male and female participants married in their 20s and early 30s, and remained married into their mid 40s. *.More than 8% of men and 6% of women married in their 20s or early 30s, then later divorced, then remarried or lived together. *.More than 11% of men and 12% of women had never married or lived together. *.Middle-aged men and women who’ve been through a separation, divorce, and remarriage are just as healthy as couples in stable relationships. *.People who’ve divorced and remarried were no more likely than those who stayed married to have heart or breathing problems early in middle age. *.Couples who married in their 20s and early 30s, and stayed married, were in almost the same health as unmarried couples living together. Men and women who had neither married nor lived with a partner had the worst health in middle age, with a higher risk of heart and breathing problems. The study was done by the University College London Institute of Education, London School of Economics, and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Starting Another Relationship Helps “For those people who experience separation and divorce, it appears that as long as they begin another relationship, their health does not suffer in the long term,” says the study’s lead author, George Ploubidis, PhD, a scientist at UCL. What might explain the link between your relationship status and your health? For starters, your partner can encourage you to keep up good habits (like exercise) and can give you emotional support when times get tough, Ploubidis says past research shows. “A couple’s income also appears to play an important role in affecting health,” he says. “Previous research has also shown that men experience an initial decline after divorce, but we found that in the long term they tend to revert back to their pre-divorce health status. Surprisingly, those men who divorced in their late 30s and did not subsequently remarry were less likely to suffer from conditions related to diabetes in early middle-age compared to those who were married.” The conclusion is that loneliness can have a negative impact on the health status of an individual. We all need friends, partners and loved ones. Drop your comments below! Stay Healthy!!!