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Love Makes You Fat. Here’s Proof.

Our columnist explains why married people are heavier than singles.

Love Makes You Fat. Here’s Proof.
Starshine Roshell

“Love makes you fat,” my adage-spouting grandmother always said. Now science proves it.

European researchers discovered earlier this year what anyone with eyeballs and a few married friends could have easily told them: that couples are generally heavier than single people.

It’s been proved before — by a study in 2013 that showed the happier people were in their marriages, the more weight they gained. And by yet another one the year before that.