Unbelievable facts
At an international obesity conference in Amsterdam, it was announced that more than 50 percent of clearly overweight men aged 18 and over are less likely to marry after age 30.
The results of a study that is actually true regardless of intellectual abilities and socio-economic provisions suggest that women attach great importance to a man's appearance when choosing a partner. “Yes, this may be one explanation,” said researcher Malin Kark from Karolinska Medical Institute in Sweden at a 4-day seminar held by the European Association for the Study of obesity issues.
Cark conducted her research on more than 500,000 Swedish men born between 1951 and 1961. As a result, she found that 46 per cent fewer men who had been obese since age 18 were married compared to regular men in 1991, when they were between 30 and 40 years old. By 2004, this number had fallen by only 1 per cent to 45 per cent.
Men who were overweight rather than obese from the age of 18 were more likely to get married, only 10 percent lower than regular men after 30 years of age, and 9 per cent below age 40.
“We think this may be due in part to some of the psychological suppression of obese men that continues into adulthood — at their jobs as well as in their interpersonal relationships,” Kark said. Studies have also found that adolescents who are obese almost always suffer from this disease in adulthood.
Obesity as a study goal is used to study people whose body mass index is more than 30 (weight in kilograms divided by height in meters in square). The World Health Organization estimates that in 2005, more than 1.6 billion adults were overweight, including about 400 million obese. Moreover, these figures are growing every year.