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Men with a "tummy" earn more.
Last reviewed: 02.07.2025
In New Zealand, a group of scientists conducted an interesting study, which revealed an interesting feature - plump men usually earn more than men whose weight is within or below the norm. At the same time, for women, it is the opposite - as statistics show, plump women have wages an order of magnitude lower than their thin peers.
According to New Zealand scientists, excess weight threatens women not only with health problems, but also with financial problems. Obese women are prone to depression, they are more likely to be dissatisfied with their own lives than thinner representatives of the fair sex. According to the scientists' research, overweight women received 40 dollars less than their slim office colleagues.
Meanwhile, the opposite situation is observed among men: overweight men receive $100 more than their thin peers.
Previously, scientists believed that obesity has a close relationship with poor mental health, general prosperity in life, but, as it turned out, this is typical only for the beautiful half of humanity. As studies have shown, with excess weight, women are more prone to depressive disorders compared to men, they more often suffer from low self-esteem, are not satisfied with the quality of their own lives.
More than a thousand people aged 30–35 years took part in the study.
Also, another study by an international group of scientists from New Zealand and Sweden found that there is a relationship between the year of birth of sisters and their body index; as it turned out, girls who were born first in the family are more likely to suffer from obesity, compared to younger sisters.
The study involved girls born between 1991 and 2009, a total of 13,000 sisters from different families. To determine the most accurate BMI, the scientists chose the age of 25. As a result, it was found that 30% of girls who were the first born in the family had a BMI significantly higher than normal. Based on these data, the scientists assumed that those girls who were the first born in the family are prone to obesity.
According to obstetricians and gynecologists, such a feature among girls may be associated with certain changes in the body of women of childbearing age, which can affect the subsequent development of the child. According to experts, during the gestation of the first child, the mother's body supplies it with fewer nutrients, which is why the body compensates for the lack of intrauterine deficiency in the future by accumulating extra pounds.
According to British experts, the cause of female obesity, which has become a problem in recent years, is the decrease in the amount of housework. Now, with the advent of high-tech devices, women make less physical effort, and this leads to the accumulation of fat in the body. Scientists suggest that in the future, women's weight may increase even more.
Over the past few decades, women have begun to do much less housework, but at the same time, the strong half of humanity has become more active in housework, compared to the past.