Tag: weight gain and marriage

(REUTERS HEALTH) - Need another reason to blame weight gain on your marriage? When one spouse becomes obese, the other’s risk of obesity almost doubles, a U.S. study suggests.

"Normal weight people whose spouses went from being normal weight to obese were more likely to become obese," said Laura Cobb, who led the study as a researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
"This suggests that changes in one spouse are likely to also be reflected in the other spouse, likely because of similar changes in diet, physical activity or other behaviors that impact obesity," Cobb said by e-mail.