Here's to Your Health, You Lazy Bum

A nagging wife just might be good for a man's health, concludes University of Chicago sociologist Ross Stolzenberg, who studied the matter for the National Institutes of Health. Because “men are taught that it is not masculine to worry about health issues while women take on a nurturing role,” men need women to constantly remind them to get exercise, take their medicines or cut back on drinking, he says. Such roles are “a fully institutionalized set of gender attitudes and expectations that we learn from the time we're children.” (Los Angeles Daily News) ...Mommas, don't let your babies grow up to be dependent.