Marriage makes you fat!
Hooking up with a long-term partner is a one-way journey to the land of expanding waistlines - it's official.
A new study from the University of North Carolina showed married people are more likely to become obese than those who are just dating.
But those folks 'living in sin' shouldn't feel smug - young people who move in with a boyfriend or girlfriend tend to pile on the pounds too.
And it doesn't take long to become tubsters. Just a couple of years or so.
The study, which tracked changes in weight and relationship status of almost 7,000 people, also revealed unmarried women who have been living with their partners for five years or less run a massive 63 per cent increased risk of obesity.
The chances of married women gaining weight increased year on year, while the risk of obesity among guys - married and unmarried - spikes only between the first and second years of living together.
So what conclusions can be made?
Well there is a suspicion after months of going to the gym and dieting before a wedding, a couple will let themselves go in a mass orgy of food and laziness after they get hitched.
Also, mealtime may become more important than it was when the people were living alone.
It's also thought having a close relationship with an obese person will make you pile on the pounds yourself.
However, this works both ways. If your better half is on a diet you're likely to lose some flubber too.
Having said all this, just last week Weird Science reported that being 'obese' will mean you'll live longer.
So commitment could save your roly-poly life!
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
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