Mental floss

Gay marriage is kind of like eating vegetables. It is good for your health.

Representatives of the nation's top psychiatric group approved a statement Sunday urging legal recognition of same-sex marriage, according to the Associated Press.
If approved by the association's directors in July, the measure would make the American Psychiatric Association the first major medical group to take such a stance.
The statement supports same-sex marriage "in the interest of maintaining and promoting mental health."
It follows a similar measure by the American Psychological Association last year, little more than three decades after that group removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders.
The psychiatric association's statement cites the "positive influence of a stable, adult partnership on the health of all family members."
The document clarifies that the association is addressing same-sex civil marriage, not religious marriages.