The next time you get annoyed at your spouse, you might want to grab something to eat. That's the take-home message from a new study that found marital hostility is at its highest when blood sugar is at its lowest. To measure aggressiveness, each husband and wife was given a voodoo doll and 51 pins. They were told to check their blood glucose level before bed each night for three weeks, and to stick any number of pins into the doll, depending on how angry they were with their spouse that day. They didn't see each other's dolls. Spouses of both genders jabbed more pins into a voodoo doll on evenings when their blood sugar was the lowest, according to the new study, published online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
I'll admit, I don't know if there is an actual correlation between these two topics, but I kind of want this to prove true. That way, if my parents ever start to yell at me or each other, I can just give them a candy bar and everything will be hunky dory. Obviously this article was targeted at married people, but I think a lesson can be learned from it regardless of your marital status: don't try to argue on an empty stomach. I also though Mrs. Countryman would like it.
I think this is intersting, but I also read the Psychopath Test for Chapman and part of that talks about how everyone is so eager nowadays to put a label or name to something "not typical". Like how just getting mad at your husband or wife should just be considered a marriage, but now it has turned into a health problem.
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