Friday, December 19, 2008

Cohabitation Makes You FAT

Women who cohabit tend to gain weight because they start eating the junk their boyfriends favor. Married women, by contrast, make healthier meals for their families, which is one of the main reasons that husbands have longer and healthier lives than unmarried men do.
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5 comments:

Clay Allard said...

I've been reading Mark Roberts's detailed critique of American moral reasoning, which he holds has degenerated into utilitarian self-interest.
Your headline should get some press, even if it's not the best moral reason not to engage in the behavior. It makes me sad to say it, but it's probably more effective than any Biblically-based reasoning is right now. What other moral behaviors can be defined as fattening? A new field of ethical exploration awaits.

11:34 AM, December 19, 2008
halifax said...

From my purely anecdotal experience, marriage makes both people fat (cohabitation probably does the same). However, my sample size is limited to previously impoverished grad students who, upon getting married, usually also find themselves with jobs and, thus, with money for food.

12:42 PM, December 19, 2008
Anonymous said...

What about gaining weight because of using food as a drug to numb out when the expectations of the marriage relationship don't match up with the reality, and not having any other tools (or pastors or other church friends with wisdom in this area) with which to address this problem.

Dana Ames

4:41 PM, December 20, 2008
Anonymous said...

Citation?

11:15 PM, January 07, 2009
Gruntled said...

Follow the link in the post.

12:59 AM, January 08, 2009

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