Well, I’m not sure if you’ve ever read this theory/hypothesis before, that married people tend to be happier, but it appears that marriage can not only benefit your overall happiness and mental attitude, but it may also be a key part of longevity.  Marriage and education, that is.

A study done that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows a strong relationship between longer lives in men and marriage and education.  Married men with or without children, who also had higher education levels tended to outlive men who were less educated and unmarried.

The study concludes some very interesting things.  One is that men who are married in the middle part of their life may be healthier, but not necessarily healthier in their old age, but they consistently outlived the other group of men. 

Also noted was that most likely due to socioeconomics, educated men tended to also be healthier, more focused on health, and live longer than men who were not educated or did not possess some sort of college degree.

Men still have higher mortality rates than women, and live an average of about 6 years less than women do, so some people (men of course) are taking the new focus on studies relating to men’s health very seriously, to help figure out why men die earlier on average, and what we can do to prevent this and live a longer, healthier life.  We can apparently start by getting married and getting educated!