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Bridget Jones in print and on screen called them the smug marries.

The happy couples that seem to have it all.

But maybe the fictional Jones should have called them the plump marries.

Because along with offering couples unbridled bliss, marriage can cause them to

pack on some extra pounds. That's according to a study in the Journal of Family Issues.

Sociologist J. Teachman at Western Washington University examined data from the National

Longitudinal Study of Youth. The data included info about more than 3,000 African Americans over a 20-year period.

Teachman tracked body mass index, BMI, a measure of obesity from adolescence to middle age.

And he analyzed the relationship between BMI, marital status, and changes in marital status.

It turned out that living without a partner usually equated

to being thinner and having a lower BMI compared with married people and couples living together.

The single folks included the never marrieds and divorced. Both men and women gained weight, but when it

came to race, black women had the most rapid weight gain, followed by white

women and then black and white men. The weight gain was just a few pounds, but even a slightly

higher BMI is associated with weight-related health issues. Several reasons exist for the weight

discrepancy between the single and married people. For example, married men and women may be

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