For every woman who complains about how messy her new live-in boyfriend is, add a new concern: his effect on her health. Dietitians have found that women tend to gain weight once they move in with male partners. "Living with a male seemed to put pressure on females to consume more of the 'unhealthy' choices," Amelia Lake, a research fellow at the Newcastle University Human Nutrition Research Center in Britain, wrote this year in the journal Complete Nutrition, "while females had a positive influence on the diets of the males."I don't generally object to scientific studies just because they confirm something that has been obvious for centuries if not millenia. After all, even the most seemingly obvious fact can benefit from careful study and some scientific rigor. The real problem with this study (single women are more careful about their weight) is the explanation: men force unhealthy diets on their mates. Poor women, just putty in the hands of men.
10 December 2006
And Swimmers Get Wetter Compared To A Control Group
The New York Times Magazine tells us, in its annual Ideas issue, that women gain wait once they've found a long-term male companion:
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Oh, when you wrote "gain wait", I first thought you meant they were even later for every event they attended.
The article also presupposes that women in their unattached state are perfect and any change is bad. Is it not possible that single women are too thin and some weight gain is healthy?
I knew they'd find a way to blame this on men. In the Man-Laws this is known as the great "Bait & Switch". Those bozos Burt Reynolds and Triple H had better address this issue pronto and stop fiddling over beer issues, or I'm calling for early elections for the council!
Women also gain weight after marriage because there's a tendency for them to match their men in portion sizes when serving food.
...do women still make and serve food to their families ?
Utah, for one.
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