{"id":41126,"date":"2010-08-13T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/13\/weight-control-more-important-than-sex\/"},"modified":"2010-08-13T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T11:58:00","slug":"weight-control-more-important-than-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/13\/weight-control-more-important-than-sex.html","title":{"rendered":"Weight Control More Important than Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arian AMU; font-size: 10.5pt\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">For some women, weight control is more important than sex, according to a new poll of 1,001 people in the US, reports USA Today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">About half of women say they would rather go without sex for the summer than gain 10 pounds. A fourth of men feel the same way, according to a recent Nutrisystem poll, conducted by Kelton Research for the diet company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">More people say they would rather shed 10 to 20 pounds during the summer than get promoted at work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Of course, weight loss would make them feel sexier. About 66% of people say they need to lose weight to feel sexier than they currently do. It would take a loss of an average 23 pounds to feel hotter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">&#8220;What this shows is that people are highly motivated to not gain weight,&#8221; says Bruce Daggy, vice president of research and development for Nutrisystem. &#8220;They recognize what it will do to their feeling of well-being and fitness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some women, weight control is more important than sex, according to a new poll of 1,001 people in the US.<br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[10423,10421,10422],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}