Posted on 01/24/2010 10:20:48 AM PST by Steelfish
Married Women '4lbs Heavier Than Unmarried Counterparts' Women really do let themselves go when they get married according to a new study which found that they are 4lbs heavier than their unmarried counterparts.
By Chris Irvine 24 Jan 2010 The study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, also found that they are 9lbs heavier if she has a baby.
Queensland University in Australia, who conducted the research, followed 6,000 women aged between 18 and 23 over a 10 year period ending in 2006. Each woman periodically completed a survey with questions about weight, height, age, physical activity and alcohol consumption among others.
It found that a 10st woman gained 11lbs if she was single and childless, but she would be 15lbs heavier if she had a partner, and 20lbs heavier if she had both a partner and a baby. The researchers attributed the weight gain to cohabiting women eating unhealthier food because of their partner, while they also have less time to exercise.
Professor Annette Dobson, who co-authored the study along with Professor Wendy Brown and Richard Hockey, said: "This is a general health concern as obesity rates continue to increase.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
4 lbs? that’s it?
maybe they meant 4 stone. it is a british source afterall
Yup. Just another warning about how relationships with men harm women. Better to be a childless Lesbian. As EVERYBODY knows, all Lesbians are thin, beautiful, and happy. [/s]
14 pounds to a stone...so 56 lbs? I don’t know..there are some really huge people out there.
If I were single again, put me squarely in the category of wanting a woman WITH CURVES!!!
Sounds like an abuse issue to me. Those partners holding these poor women down and shoving “unhealthy” food down their throats.
And really, gaining 10 pounds puts you at a health risk? I’m still trying to figure out the real agenda behind this article.
You poor thing. Didn’t you know that fat contains lots of stem cells that are necessary when fighting infection or recovering from an injury? ... Must be nice to be a goose-head, waking up to a new world every morning.
This study is just another stupid attempt to get people to abandon married life.
What a stupid article bashing married women with children. Excuse me, that’s cohabitating women.
Just to be clear on the matter, my wife and I are married (duh), and have a child, and I absolutely love the fact that she fits right in there with these statistics; I would have doubts about whether children with a too-thin mother are getting either enough love, or enough nutrition.
As a woman married 10 years, mid forties and has been with my partner for over twelve years I am the same or even lower weight then when I graduated from high school in which I was very slender then. Since I now lift heavy weights and do a rigorous resistance workout three days a week, eat well, and do my cardio four to six days a week, I am a size two as opposed to the size four when I graduated high school.
The point being that if a woman takes care of herself, commits to self care while also caring for her relationship she can look awesome hot. My husband likes. They must have studied only liberal women ;-D!!
Exactly!
You are bad. I’m still chuckling.
Just because one is in a loving relationship does mean they literally must use this as an excuse to be a pig or let themselves go to pot.
Who is attracted to a dykey feminazi? Who would you rather? Sarah Palin or a heavy, dykey feminist who no longer cares for herself but uses her long term partnership as an excuse for looking super heavy?
Four lbs is nothing. It is when four turns into fifteen plus that this rationalization is just that a rationalization.
a 25 year old single woman weighing 120 lbs turns into a 35 year old married woman weighing 175 lbs
seems about right
There fixed it.
I used that exuse decades ago ... “My wife had a baby, I can’t hlep it if I gained weight!”
44 married women weighing in a 125 and dress size two. Excuses are just that excuses. Men (and married men are men) like women that take care of themselves and are attracted to same. Few women are taking care of themselves if they are weighing in at 175. There will always be a woman who is taking care of herself looking or even flirting with ones husband if he is even half attractive and has attractive characteristics.
I mean I am an age 44 married woman
Not my wife...four kids later and she’s still wearing the same size clothes when I married her 31 years ago....
A size 3 at 5’5”.....
Yes Freeper ladies...it’s OK to hate her...
“There will always be a woman who is taking care of herself looking or even flirting with ones husband if he is even half attractive and has attractive characteristics.”
There are names for these women. How sad for a woman if she is “taking care” of herself to flirt with another woman’s husband. Seems pathetic.
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