For Your Health’s Sake: Try a Little Tenderness You are concerned about your heart, so you don’t smoke, you eat a healthful diet and you exercise on a regular basis. Perhaps you should also lay off the negativity and controlling comments when you talk to your spouse. A 3-year study of older married couples conducted by psychologists from the University of Utah has shown a link between the quality of relationships and atherosclerosis, or the narrowing of the arteries that carry blood to the heart. In the study, researchers evaluated videotapes of dialogue between 150 married couples. (At least one member of each couple was beween 60 and […]
