If you're fated up after marriage, it's just that.

Love can be blind, but it can also be sound.

New couples earn an average of 2-3kg within their first year of marriage, explains Dr Catherine Hankey, a lecturer at the University of Glasgout.

Some couples can earn up to two pounds [2 kg] in three months if they live together, she adds.

This can happen because food becomes essential for couples who are co-operating, who can encourage each other to eat more and then move less.

“This is a major cultural issue”, she told “The Times”.

The “people who live together have to save their weight. When you get fat, it's bad for self-esteem and it can also damage relationships. ”

Hankey's comments follow a number of scientific studies that have proved that a happy relationship is synonymous with the collection of grams or pounds.

A 2013 study conducted by researchers in Southern Methodist University (SMU) found that the more content the newlyweds were with their marriages, the more they weighed over a two - year period.

On the contrary, couples who were less satisfied in their relationships maintained their weight. Weight gain is also common for couples entering new relationships.

This may be particularly widespread for women, as a survey conducted by the UKMedix online pharmacy in 2014 found that 43 percent of women increased weight in the first year of a new relationship.

Source Layer: The Independent