{"id":150383,"date":"2010-01-07T16:02:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calorielab.com\/news\/?p=6725"},"modified":"2010-01-07T16:02:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T21:02:22","slug":"women-with-partners-put-on-more-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/150383","title":{"rendered":"Women with partners put on more weight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most people gain weight as they age, but a new study has found that women who live with a mate tend to put on more weight<\/a> over time than do women who live alone, even if those women don’t have children.<\/p>\n

Gain nearly doubles with partner and baby<\/h3>\n

Women who didn’t have partners or children gained an average of 11 pounds over 10 years, which corresponds pretty well with the general thinking that people gain about a pound a year in adulthood. <\/p>\n

But women who lived with a partner and didn’t give birth gained an average of 15 pounds in the same time period, while women who had partners and children gained 20 pounds in 10 years. <\/p>\n

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There were not enough single mothers in the study, by researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia, to draw any conclusions about how much weight they gained. <\/p>\n

Behavior, metabolic changes may be at work<\/h3>\n

Researchers followed more than 6,000 Australian women for a 10-year period that ended in 2006. The women were 18 to 23 when the study started and completed a lengthy questionnaire about their health and lifestyle habits periodically through the study period.<\/p>\n

By the time the 10 years was up, half of the women had at least one child and three-quarters lived with a partner. Researchers said most of the extra weight gain seen in mothers came with the first child; subsequent pregnancies didn’t have as significant an impact. <\/p>\n

Researchers said there’s no reason to think metabolic changes happen in people who live with partners to explain why those women would gain more weight than women who live alone, and that it’s likely they gained more weight simply because of behavioral changes. People with partners may go out to eat more often or have a more active social life, and keeping up eating habits that are similar to an often larger man could easily cause a woman to gain more weight.<\/p>\n

For women who’d been pregnant, however, there probably were metabolism changes that came about with pregnancy that are difficult to reverse once the child is born, researchers said. And the fact that pretty much all women steadily gained weight as they aged could point to metabolic changes being a factor in some weight gain. <\/p>\n

This study didn’t look at men, but previous research has shown higher rates of obesity among men who are fathers. <\/p>\n

(By Sarah E. White for CalorieLab Calorie Counter News)<\/p>\n

From the RSS feed of CalorieLab News<\/a> (REF3076322B7)<\/p>\n

Women with partners put on more weight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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