Scientists: Spouses gain or lose weight in sync


Scientists from the private research at Johns Hopkins University after a series of observations and tests concluded that couples simultaneously gaining weight. Obesity is one of the partners in the doubles the risk of this phenomenon and the second half.
Experts from Baltimore for four years have seen nearly 4,000 couples, some of which already were overweight. Research has shown that one of the spouses is to acquire additional pounds as the second began to emerge as the extra weight, which often leads to total adiposity. A similar trend in 78% of cases the properties of men and as many as 89% of the wives. At the same time there were some couples who showed the opposite result. One of the partners decides to choose a healthy lifestyle and get rid of excess weight and eventually brought into shape as a result of such changes, and they touched the other half.
The fact that marriage is bad for the figure has long spoken in jest, but it turned out that the truth in this. Scientists believe that between the pairs there is a huge connection. They study each other, have a common diet, which often contain harmful products and adopt habits that eventually become public. But, despite this, the marriage may conversely cause the transition to a healthy lifestyle. After all, if one partner decides to get in shape, and the second most likely to be carried away by a healthy lifestyle.