Toxic love

Here is something that we have been suspecting all along. Coupledom makes you fat.

Dimitris Kiortsis, president of the Hellenic Medical Association for Obesity, announced that abdominal obesity was the most serious health problem among married people. Married men were three times more likely to have big bellies than unmarried men, and married women were twice as likely to be paunchy than their single counterparts.

The reasons for the weight gain were two-fold. First being that couples spend more time slumped on the sofa watching television and eating large meals together than single people and the second reason being their dwindling sex life due to all the extra calories. So the next time you crib about singledom, think twice.