Being married triples the risk of men becoming obese, research suggests.
The chance of piling on the pounds increased for both sexes after marriage, however.
Women’s risk of being overweight was 39% higher – and men’s 62% – compared with unmarried couples.
But married men were 3.2 times more likely to be classed as technically obese than their unmarried counterparts, according to the study.
This finding wasn’t mirrored in females, which the Polish researchers said could be because women who are obese “are more often stigmatised” by society.
Dr Alicja Cicha-Mikolajczyk, from Warsaw’s National Institute of Cardiology, suggested women “cannot accept living with obesity” and are more likely to take action to lose weight.
In the UK, the NHS generally classes obese people as having a body mass index (BMI) of above…