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love and obesity
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1907143,00.html
interesting article i came across
[QUOTE=] the study notes that unmarried women who have been living with their sweeties for five years or less run a 63% increased risk of obesity. What about unmarried men? On average, they have no increased risk during cohabitation.
"With women, we saw incremental risk after one year," says Penny Gordon-Larsen, one of the two nutrition epidemiologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) who conducted the study. "The longer she lived with a romantic partner, the more likely she was to keep putting on weight." Meanwhile, the risk of obesity among guys — married and unmarried — spikes only between the first and second years of living together.[/QUOTE]
interesting article i came across
[QUOTE=] the study notes that unmarried women who have been living with their sweeties for five years or less run a 63% increased risk of obesity. What about unmarried men? On average, they have no increased risk during cohabitation.
"With women, we saw incremental risk after one year," says Penny Gordon-Larsen, one of the two nutrition epidemiologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) who conducted the study. "The longer she lived with a romantic partner, the more likely she was to keep putting on weight." Meanwhile, the risk of obesity among guys — married and unmarried — spikes only between the first and second years of living together.[/QUOTE]
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Another factor as well is when you have found a stable mate, all you want to do is enjoy life--that involves eating lots of "yum" food with the significant other.
It's a scary thought--I hope I never get obese. Being slightly chubby for me is enough.
Most men don't see living together as "settling down" and most women do.
Note from Article: Cohabitation saves the male species. Married men are not safe from the obesity.
A man is more likely to rationalize cohabitation as something not forever, where as to a woman, it may mean preparation for marriage, meaning it's as good as forever.
there is somethin else to note as well, that gaining some weight and obesity are not exactly the same thing
and the article does note that
"the risk of obesity among guys — married and unmarried — spikes only between the first and second years of living together."
do you eat 3-4 times a day, or are you always missing breakfast or lunch?