Blood Pressure Levels Could Be Positively Affected By The Quality Of A Pair's Marriage

A wedding band can be more than just a symbol. According to a recent study, a happy marriage can actually lower blood pressure.  Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a psychologist and professor at Brigham Young University, Provo, Ut., found that men and women in happy marriages scored four points lower on blood pressure tests than single adults with good social networks.   "There seem to be some unique health benefits from marriage," Holt-Lunstad said. "It's not just being married that benefits health. What's really the most protective of health is having a happy marriage."  The study also found, however, that unhappily married people had higher blood pressures than both married and single people. Holt-Lunstad's research included 204 married and 99 single adults whose blood pressures were monitored with portable devices over 24 hours.


Proposal would raise marriage fee

Saying "I do" could get more expensive in Colorado.   Sen. John Morse, D-Colorado Springs, has proposed raising the marriage fee from $10 to $35 to raise money for Court-Appointed Special Advocate programs across the state. SB 47 could come up for a final vote in the Senate as soon as today.  CASA programs pair volunteers with children who are going through neglect or abuse cases or sometimes divorce proceedings.  They get some local government funding but no state money, leaving thousands of children across the state stuck on a waiting list.  Morse said Colorado has the second lowest marriage fee in the country, and he thinks it's an appropriate source of funding for CASA because the agency deals with the problems of broken homes.



Marriage of losers a worst buy

How short are Circuit City's circuits?  Last April, Philip Schoon over, CEO of the nation's No. 2 electronics chain, announced "a wage- management initiative."  Schoonover � who bagged nearly $7 million in compensation last year � decided that $12 an hour was too much for his salespeople.  So he fired 3,400 employees and replaced them with people willing to work for $8. Circuit City's stock then lost 75 percent of its value. All those big-screen TVs, but few employees left who knew how to sell them.   It could be a Harvard Business School case study on how being a ruthless idiot doesn't always work. <p> Then on Monday, Blockbuster, the struggling video chain, said it's been trying to buy out Circuit City since December. Its unsolicited bid is now worth as much as $8 for shares that traded for less than $4 last month.
 

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