Overweight Married Couples

Research shows married people have higher BMIs than singles.
Abby Ellin wrote in the New York Times (6/13, ST17) that "gaining weight during marriage is about as common as holding your breath under water." In fact, "a 2008 study in the Journal of Economics and Human Biology examined data from 12,000 men and women ages 18 to mid-40s. Compared with when they were single, the body mass index (or BMI, a height-to-weight ratio) of married men increased by 1.5 percent above and beyond what they would normally gain as they aged, and that of women shot up 2 percent."