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Relative weight matters in marriage
“相对体重”关系婚姻幸福

The secret of a happy marriage might be nothing more complicated than the wife being slimmer than her husband.

The secret of a happy marriage might be nothing more complicated than the wife being slimmer than her husband.
A study from the University of Tennessee suggests that in the short and long term, both partners are more content if the woman has a lower Body Mass Index, the Daily Mail reported. 美国田纳西大学的一项研究显示,不管是短期内还是长远来看,妻子的体质指数越低,夫妻双方对婚姻的满意度就越高。
They discovered that men who had a higher BMI, which is calculated from height and weight, were happier at the start of their marriage and stayed that way, and wives with a lower BMI than their husbands were significantly happier than those who weighed the same or more. 体质指数即为身高体重指数。英国《每日邮报》报道称,如果男方的体质指数较高,那么婚姻一开始就会很幸福,且这种状态会一直延续下去;而体质指数比丈夫低的女人也比那些和丈夫的体质指数一样或者还要高的女人更加幸福。

Lead author Andrea Meltzer said: "The great message from our study is that women of any size can be happy in their relationships with the right partner. It's relative weight that matters, not absolute weight."

(China.org.cn July 25, 2011)

该研究的主要作者安德列娅·梅尔泽说:“我们的研究传达出的重要信息就是:任何体型的女人与合适的伴侣在一起都可以很幸福。因为真正重要的是相对体重,而非绝对体重。”

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