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Men who have diets forced on them by wives often get FATTER

Men who have diets forced on them by wives often get FATTER

  • Diets often forced on men by their wives
  • Eat healthy food at home - but then binge elsewhere
  • Only 'negotiated' diets work

By Rob Waugh

PUBLISHED: 05:55 EST, 23 May 2012 | UPDATED: 06:03 EST, 23 May 2012

Men who meekly bow to diets 'forced on them' by their wives can actually GAIN weight, after eating 'landslides' of food away from home

Men who meekly bow to diets 'forced on them' by their wives can actually GAIN weight, after eating 'landslides' of food away from home

Men who meekly bow to diets 'forced on them' by their wives can actually GAIN weight, after eating 'landslides' of food away from home.

Wives rarely consult with husbands before 'putting' them on a healthier diet.

Only couples who negotiate a new 'healthy' diet make progress.

Otherwise, after three or four nights of healthy, low-fat turkey, men tend to slink off to an all-you-can-eat buffet.

It's just easier to 'pretend' to diet to maintain a happy home.

‘The key to ma rried men adopting a healthier diet is for couples to discuss and negotiate the new, healthier menu changes as a team,’ said Derek Griffith, assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

‘I think at dinner a lot of men are eating healthier, but they compensate for the dissatisfaction of not eating what they want by making unhealthier choices outside the home,’ Griffith said.

Physicians can help by recognizing that wives play a central role in what men eat at home, Griffith said.

‘Doctors could suggest that men have a tactful conversation with their wives in a way that ensures the husbands aren't sleeping on the couch that night,’ Griffith said.

Researchers conducted focus groups with 83 African-American men.

The majority of men said their wives didn't consult them when helping them to adopt a healthier diet.

Even though the healthier diet was often ordered by a physician, the husbands often disliked the food changes, but to avoid conflict, they didn't object. 

Mmm! Even though the healthier diet was often ordered by a doctor, the husbands often disliked the food changes, but to avoid conflict, they didn't object

Mmm! Even though the healthier diet was often ordered by a doctor, the husbands often disliked the food changes, but to avoid conflict, they didn't object


Men focused more on maintaining a happy home than having a say in what they ate.

In fact, the only examples found of couples negotiating healthy food choices came about to benefit the children in the home, Griffith said.

However, without that communication, those good intentions and healthy diet changes often backfired, the study found.

After tasteless ground turkey for the fifth night in a row, some men would head to the all -you-can-eat buffet for ‘a landslide of food.’


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I was working with a guy at work, we felt so bad for him. He would often drool over our lunches that included meat, he was not a vegetarian but his wife was, so he was only allowed vegetarian meals in his lunchbox and meat of the fake variety (a well known brand). Sometimes he would come with us for a nice meaty feast in the company's restaurant but then felt guilty all afternoon, afraid that his wife might find out........We told him to grow a pair and start wearing the trousers at home, he should take control of his life and do as he pleases.

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Why would you force your husband to go on a diet? He's not going to be successful if his heart's not in it!

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illicit cheeseburgers taste much better. - Alan, Broadway Worcs, 23/05/2012 12:13 Thank you for the giggle! :'-D

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Those men who are 'meekly' bowing to dietry change and food 'forced upon them' should seek some sort of mans shelter. Surely this is domestic abuse.

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Why don't these men take charge in the kitchen / shopping? Treat her for a change?

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Yep I am an example of this, illicit cheeseburgers taste much better. They could have come and asked me instead of spending a fortune on research.

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