{"id":3869,"date":"2010-01-05T06:28:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T06:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/01\/its-your-husbands-fault.html"},"modified":"2010-01-05T06:28:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T06:28:51","slug":"its-your-husbands-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/01\/its-your-husbands-fault.html","title":{"rendered":"It’s your husband’s fault"},"content":{"rendered":"

And now there’s scientific evidence<\/a> to back it up: <\/p>\n

\nIt is widely known that women tend to gain weight after giving birth, but now a large study has found evidence that even among childless women, those who live with a mate put on more pounds than those who live without one.<\/p>\n

The differences, the scientists found, were stark.<\/p>\n

After adjusting for other variables, the 10-year weight gain for an average 140-pound woman was 20 pounds if she had a baby and a partner, 15 if she had a partner but no baby, and only 11 pounds if she was childless with no partner. The number of women with a baby but no partner was too small to draw statistically significant conclusions.<\/p>\n

There is no reason to believe that having a partner causes metabolic changes, so the weight gain among childless women with partners was almost surely caused by altered behavior. Moreover, there was a steady weight gain among all women over the 10 years of the study.<\/p>\n

This does not explain the still larger weight gain in women who became pregnant. The lead author, Annette J. Dobson, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Queensland in Australia, suggested that physiological changes might be at work.<\/p>\n

“Women’s bodies may adjust to the increased weight associated with having a baby,” Dr. Dobson said. “There may be a metabolic adjustment that goes on when women are pregnant that is hard to reverse. This would be more consistent with our findings than any other explanation.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out the link<\/a> for more. And good luck with that diet in the new year…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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