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Married Women '4lbs Heavier Than Unmarried Counterparts [9lbs Heavier If She Has A Baby]
Telegraph(UK) ^ | Chris Irvine

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 ...


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To: Steelfish

4 lbs? that’s it?

maybe they meant 4 stone. it is a british source afterall


21 posted on 01/24/2010 10:45:41 AM PST by sten
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To: Pikachu_Dad

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]


22 posted on 01/24/2010 10:48:50 AM PST by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: sten

14 pounds to a stone...so 56 lbs? I don’t know..there are some really huge people out there.


23 posted on 01/24/2010 10:49:54 AM PST by Hildy
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To: Steelfish

If I were single again, put me squarely in the category of wanting a woman WITH CURVES!!!


24 posted on 01/24/2010 10:53:11 AM PST by Michael Barnes (Call me when the bullets start flying.)
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To: Steelfish
***The researchers attributed the weight gain to cohabiting women eating unhealthier food because of their partner, while they also have less time to exercise.***

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.

25 posted on 01/24/2010 10:53:34 AM PST by GrannyAnn
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To: WellyP

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.


26 posted on 01/24/2010 10:57:10 AM PST by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: Steelfish
As everyone who is over the age of 18 knows the reason both men and women gain weight after marriage is because A:) They both feel they don't have to chase the opposite sex any more so therefore they kind of let themselves get a trifle careless in their apperance. B:) Because as people get older and get more responsibility they tend be caught up in day to day events and don't pay attention to their weight until they have gained a few(and sometimes many)pounds.

This study is just another stupid attempt to get people to abandon married life.

27 posted on 01/24/2010 11:00:08 AM PST by calex59
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To: Oceander
Single people don’t generally cook. Single women have a tendency to skip meals. Married women with children have to make or supply 3 meals a day. And I doubt that it’s always unhealthy.

What a stupid article bashing married women with children. Excuse me, that’s cohabitating women.

28 posted on 01/24/2010 11:01:28 AM PST by GrannyAnn
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To: GrannyAnn

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.


29 posted on 01/24/2010 11:05:36 AM PST by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: Steelfish
notice the age of the women studied: 18-23. in the US few women of that age group often aren't even married.

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!!

30 posted on 01/24/2010 11:10:00 AM PST by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: CaptainK
Have they dona a study on married men? I won’t hold my breath waiting.

Exactly!

31 posted on 01/24/2010 11:16:56 AM PST by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

You are bad. I’m still chuckling.


32 posted on 01/24/2010 11:19:44 AM PST by Former War Criminal (My senior Senator (who served in Vietnam) said so.)
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To: Steelfish
Another area in which Sarah Palin has bucked the stats!!!!!!! :-D. Proof that not all women that are dedicated wives and mothers as well as smart and have many other roles in life must be heavy and weigh more than the average single person.

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.

33 posted on 01/24/2010 11:22:33 AM PST by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: Hildy

a 25 year old single woman weighing 120 lbs turns into a 35 year old married woman weighing 175 lbs

seems about right


34 posted on 01/24/2010 11:23:29 AM PST by sten
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To: GOP Poet
Just because one is in a loving relationship does doesn't mean they literally must use this as an excuse to be a pig or let themselves go to pot.

There fixed it.

35 posted on 01/24/2010 11:23:57 AM PST by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: workerbee

I used that exuse decades ago ... “My wife had a baby, I can’t hlep it if I gained weight!”


36 posted on 01/24/2010 11:25:26 AM PST by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: sten

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.


37 posted on 01/24/2010 11:26:32 AM PST by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: GOP Poet

I mean I am an age 44 married woman


38 posted on 01/24/2010 11:27:06 AM PST by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: Steelfish

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...


39 posted on 01/24/2010 11:32:42 AM PST by nevergore ("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
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To: GOP Poet

“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.


40 posted on 01/24/2010 11:38:30 AM PST by TriGirl (Lurking for 7 years!!!!!)
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