You really do put on weight in a relationship

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3169, 2018, pág. 9
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Finding love isn't great for your waistline. A large study has found that even though couples tend to have healthier lifestyles than single people, this doesn't stop them from piling on the pounds. Stephanie Schoeppe of Central Queensland University in Australia and her colleagues have analyzed a decade of survey data from more than 15,000 volunteers. Each person had answered questions about lifestyle choices, such as how much fast food they ate, and how much television they watched. The team found that couples and singles seem to do the same amount of physical activity, and watch similar amounts of television, even accounting for variables such as age, sex, employment status and level of education. Generally, people in relationships seemed to make other healthier lifestyle choices, says Schoeppe. Couples ate more fruit and vegetables and less fast food, they drank less alcohol, and they smoked less too