Divorce, Remarriage Both Terrible For Your Health

Really, what isn't bad for you? Divorce, remarriage, long-term marriage, and singledom are all detrimental to your health. Why bother, as we sometimes do, getting out of bed in the morning?

A Chicago study involving 8,652 people aged 51 to 61 found divorced people have 20% more chronic illnesses such as cancer than those who never marry.

The figure only drops to 12% for those who remarry, researchers write in the Journal of Health and Social Behaviour.

They say we start adulthood with a "health stock" that is kept or eroded depending on our marital experience.

Only those who are continuously married can expect the same rate of chronic health problems as the never-wedded, the study suggests.

Although people who remarry after a divorce or being widowed do tend to be happier as a result - being no more depressed than those continuously married and less depressed than those who never married - they gain little in terms of chronic health conditions.

So, there you go, people: don't ever get married. Or get married but don't ever get divorced. Or get divorced if the relationship is abusive. Either way, this study will be debunked on Thursday.

Via BBC News.