Show 1059: What Are the Sacred Cows of Marriage?

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Nearly half of all marriages end in divorce, if we are to believe the statistics. Despite that, there is significant social pressure on married couples to stay together, even though the relationship may be unraveling. What Are Sacred Cows? Our guests examine the rationalizations the friends and family members often employ when a marriage starts […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.
0:02.5	I'm Terry Graydon.
0:04.0	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines.
0:10.4	This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream.
0:16.2	800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com.
0:31.0	When people say I do in a marriage ceremony, they're optimistic about the future.
0:36.3	What happens when I do turns into I
0:38.8	don't. This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:50.2	Couples who are struggling in their marriage are under tremendous pressure to stay together no matter what.
0:56.4	Friends, family, and colleagues may give them unsolicited advice about why they should work things out.
1:02.4	Our guests today will talk about the arguments that are presented to rationalize staying together instead of separating.
1:09.5	They question the assumptions and conventional wisdom about divorce.
1:13.9	Is it crucial for couples to stay together for the sake of the kids?
1:18.5	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, find out what happens when sacred vows turned into sacred cows.
1:25.6	First, the news.
1:30.3	In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines,
1:33.3	should every American over age 40 be taking a statin drug to lower cholesterol?
1:39.3	The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has just come out with recommendations that doctors consider a statin
1:45.1	for anyone between 40 and 75. Whether or not the physician prescribed such a drug should depend
1:52.0	on whether patients have cardiovascular risk factors that would put them at 10% or higher chance of a heart
1:58.0	attack over the next 10 years. There's not enough data for the
2:02.5	task force to determine whether older adults beyond the age of 75 benefit from statins. Some
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