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Why married people live longer

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Research shows married couples live for longer   Photo: Courtesy

You want to lead a healthy life? Well, according to a team of researchers, getting married holds the key to a long life. For a while I thought, these ‘tumzungus’ have really have run out of worthy hypotheses.

It turned out though their premises were quite justifiable. Dr Lincoln Khasakhala agrees unreservedly. Lincoln, a clinical psychologist – currently working at AMREF Kenya says, the researchers really did land on something valuable.

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