This study says that there is a correlation between risk factors for Cardio Vascular Disease and improving or declining married relationships. If you are a married man, and your risk factors for CVD are increasing, the quality of your relationship will decline over time. If you are a married man, and your risk factors for CVD are decreasing, the quality of your relationship will increase over time. The authors of the study said some very interesting things related to decreased risk of CVD: "Change in both these risk factors for the improving quality group may have been driven by weight loss (change in BMI −1.07 kg/m2, 95% CI −1.73 to −0.42 kg/m2).”

My extrapolation of this study into generalized information consists of two main points:

  • Lift - If you are a fat fuck, your life will suck. The less fat you are, the less your life will suck. For married men, your wife will want to fuck the slimmer, fitter you. You will be more of a prize. Other women will notice this to. If you are not prioritizing your time and attention on a physical fitness plan for yourself, you’re an idiot, and you’re wasting your time.

  • Sexual Marketplace Value - While this study focuses on LPL and HDL cholesterol counts over time, read between the lines… If you were the hot, fit guy that got the girl, then turned into a fucking fat slob, your SMV lowered. If nobody else will fuck you, why would your wife. Your value in the marketplace will reflect on how your wife should be treating you. (notice I said should).

From the Study:

What this study adds - Improvement and deterioration of longitudinal relationship quality appears to be associated with respectively positive and negative associations with a broad range of objectively measured cardiovascular disease risk factors.

Further research needs to determine if effective marriage counselling, or when appropriate, abandoning a deteriorating relationship, has longer term physical health benefits over and above psychological well-being.

None of this should be a mystery to any of you here. I saw an opportunity to read a paper about this, and share it.