Not only is obesity bad for your health, it is also bad for dating and relationships as well.

[traveller]

Everyone knows that obesity is bad. Obesity leads to heart attacks and strokes, plus it weighs you down to where getting around is hard.

But did you know that obesity is also a huge barrier to dating? Yes it is, especially for women that are obese. Women that are obese are in fact only maybe 1 to 3 percent as likely to get a date as women that are healthy and in shape. Men simply are not attracted to the huge double chin with no visible neck, the overhanging belly, and the cottage cheese legs. Many men simply don't like to come clean out of fear of retribution, which is why you don't hear men saying that they are not attracted to women that are obese.

It even shows, for those who have seen the Jerry Springer show, how unattractive and disruptive obesity is. Numerous episodes showing guests confessing to infidelity and cheating show a man cheating on a woman that is even morbidly obese with a woman that is skinny to average, healthy, and in shape. And in such cases, it's the morbidly obese woman's tremendous girth that has pushed the guy away and caused him to cheat.