Guys: Get Married For The Sake Of Your Bones, But Wait Until You're 25

Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 21:50 in Psychology & Sociology

Marriage is good for the health of men's bones - but only if they marry when they're 25 or older, new UCLA researcher suggests. In a study published online in the peer-reviewed journal Osteoporosis International, researchers found evidence that men who married when they were younger than 25 had lower bone strength than men who married for the first time at a later age. In addition, men in stable marriages or marriage-like relationships who had never previously divorced or separated had greater bone strength than men whose previous marriages had fractured, the researchers said. And those in stable relationships also had stronger bones than men who never married. read more

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