The more love the more fat scientific facts

Many men and women in love or marriage may often have a doubt: "Why have I gained more weight since I have a date?" Perhaps you often hear your boy/girlfriend pinching their round belly and shouting, "Tomorrow I'll start losing weight!" But it always fails.

This fattening phenomenon is difficult to avoid even for public figures who focus on body management: actor Zhang Ruoyun accompanied the birth of Tang Yixin, dabbling in eating the monthly meal and gaining twenty pounds of weight; various shows invite couples of artists who have gained weight to lose weight together.

In real life, people usually call this phenomenon "happy fat".

Although people often say "happy fat", I do not know that happy fat is also a scientific basis.

A U.S. study of 6,949 U.S. teenagers preparing to enter adulthood and 1,293 cohabiting or married partners conducted a survey, the study proved that the BMI between spouses is highly correlated, one partner's obesity increases the risk of obesity in their spouse, and the correlation between cohabiting couples is stronger than between non-cohabiting couples; married people are more likely to be overweight and obese than unmarried people.

Simply put, the closer and deeper the relationship with a partner, the greater the risk of becoming obese.

BMI relationship chart between spouses

This is because cohabiting or married partners are often in the same living environment together, and their lifestyles are mutually influenced by each other, so the physical status of both partners has a certain correlation and a stronger connection than that between ordinary partners.

It has been pointed out that human interaction, especially a continuous and close marital relationship, will affect the intestinal flora of both partners, and the composition of intestinal flora will be more similar between spouses, and intestinal flora affects the absorption of the body, and poor dietary habits will affect the changes in the intestinal flora, which will lead to changes in weight.

And partners have similar eating habits due to living together for a long time, which explains why there is always a case of both partners gaining weight together.

Comparison of the similarity of gut microbes between spouses and siblings

Some friends say that because every date does not know what to do in addition to eating, found a new restaurant immediately to try; some say that my object likes to encourage me to eat, can not finish eating let him a contract; others say that the object is too good to cook, committed to feeding me fat, really can not help ah ......

As a large dating platform, ZhenAi.com has collected 2,100 valid questionnaires, the questionnaire shows that 80% of singles express good feelings by feeding food; nearly 80% of men and women said that the frequency of eating out after falling in love increased, 60% of men and women said that after falling in love will be "happy fat", it can be seen that food in the promotion of intimate relationships The second half price", a variety of couples packages, bundled sets can be seen everywhere, want not "happy fat" is also very difficult.

Both sides have inadvertently changed each other, perhaps between partners is "I can think of the most romantic thing is to slowly get fat with you", so keep your weight and stay away from objects.

Marital and reproductive status is also an important factor in obesity.

After comparing the obesity rate of urban and rural married women with unmarried and unmarried women of the same age, the Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that the weight and body mass index of unmarried women and married women with childbearing were lower than the average for women aged 18 to 44 in China, and married women with unmarried childbearing were slightly higher than the national average; the overweight and obesity rates of married women with unmarried childbearing were significantly higher than those of unmarried women and married women with childbearing.

It can be said that to some extent the state of happy fat mainly exists before having children. In the married and infertile stage, life is more stable and comfortable in all aspects, physical exercise is reduced, and it is easier to produce happy fat, but after having children women are responsible for the task of raising children, nutritional needs increase, thus changing the dietary structure, plus doing housework and other labor, life is more stressful, which may also lead to overweight and obesity in women.

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For men, due to the close partnership, when men are promoted to fatherhood, men also experience changes in their hormones due to their wives' pregnancy, and elevated levels of prolactin in men's bodies, which to some extent can cause weight gain, which is considered a sweet burden for fathers-to-be.

Prolactin (PRL, also known as lactogen or prolactin) is a protein hormone secreted by the eosinophils of the anterior pituitary gland

Although happiness fat is caused by a too-happy life and a rich diet, there is a limit to happiness and obesity.

There is a relationship between happiness and BMI. As BMI rises the subjective happiness value of individuals also rises, but when BMI reaches the value of obesity or severe obesity (BMI ≥ 30), the subjective happiness value of individuals will decline.

People's subjective well-being is closely related to their obesity level; after all, no one can be very happy after seeing an unsatisfactory number on the scale.

Studies have shown that most individuals are happy to be with someone of a similar weight to themselves, and in long-lasting relationships, when one partner is heavier, the more dissatisfied the other partner is. So being happy and fat is also risky, and it's best to control your weight for the sake of long-term happiness.

The relationship between obesity and subjective well-being

But don't think that happiness fat only exists between partners. In normal social relationships, obesity is also contagious.

If your friend becomes fat, then your chances of becoming obese increase by 71%, and the obesity contagion between men and men are stronger; if you have siblings, when they become fat, you are also likely to become obese. Some might say, well, I'll stay away from them so I don't get fat!

Increasing social distance has a lower degree of effect on self-obesity while increasing geographical distance has no change in the degree of self-obesity

However, the increase in geographical distance does not make the social distance shorten, your hearts are still tightly connected, the social methods and tools of the Internet era have broken the time and space restrictions, such as WeChat, communication and sharing anytime, anywhere, can make acquaintances further maintain and strengthen the relationship, so being far away does not reduce the influence of friends on their own, this trick does not work.

So whether single or not, there is the possibility of getting fat, love partners can be called "happy fat", while single people can only say: "I must be eating too much dog food to eat."

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So, whether you are in a relationship or single, to maintain a good weight, it is better not to let your favorite weight loss videos eat dust.