Watching Your Waistline? Watch Your Partner!

With Thanksgiving bounty about to pile up on plates and platters, there’s new research that shows it might not be your partner’s good cooking but rather their stress level that could have a negative effect on your waistline.

The study also found that quality of marriage also seemed to play a role in whether husbands and wives fattened up.

UPI is reporting that researchers at the University of Michigan found that your partner's stress, and not your own, predicted an increased waist circumference over time.

The study finds that it would be best to aim stress reduction at couples rather than individuals because waist-size is an indication of excess abdominal fat and a risk factor for several different illnesses