Educated Woman = Longer Life for Man

Posted on October 7, 2009

“Women traditionally take more responsibility for the home than men do, and, as a consequence, women’s education might be more important for the family’s lifestyle – for example, in terms of food habits – than men’s education.”

“We can assume that more highly educated women have better possibilities to find the important health messages that are around…There are lots of health messages in the media and I think some of them are important and some are just misleading.”

– Drs. Robert Erikson and Jenny Torssander of the Swedish Institute for Social Research

Interesting stuff. Read the details of the study here.

Nice to know that if our wife is educated, us men have a better chance of living healthier for longer. To the women out there, thanks for helping us stay/get healthy, even if we don’t always want to listen.