{"id":3099,"date":"2010-01-27T02:43:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T07:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2010-01-27T02:43:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T07:43:17","slug":"repost-obesity-widowhood-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/27\/repost-obesity-widowhood-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost:: Obesity, widowhood &#038; happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I really need to get thinner!<br \/>\nObesity, widowhood &amp; happiness<br \/>\nWhich is worse for happiness &#8211; being fat or suffering the death of a spouse?<br \/>\nTwo recent papers suggest the answer is &#8211; being fat.<br \/>\nFirst, Marina-Selini Katsaiti finds that \u201cobesity has a negative and statistically significant effect on individual well being\u201d. She estimates that, in Germany, a three-point rise in BMI (from, say 24 to 27 &#8211; equivalent to gaining around 20 pounds for someone who\u2019s 5\u20198\u201d) reduces happiness on average by so much that it would require a 67% pay rise to compensate. In Australia it would require a doubling of income to offset the adverse effect of such a weight gain. Of course, these figures tell us how little income raises happiness, as well as how much chubbiness reduces it.<br \/>\nIn the UK, the effect is smaller, but even here a 10-point rise in BMI reduces happiness by 0.1 units on a seven-point scale.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com\/stumbling_and_mumbling\/2010\/01\/obesity-widowhood-happiness.html\">Stumbling and Mumbling: Obesity, widowhood &amp; happiness<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really need to get thinner! Obesity, widowhood &amp; happiness Which is worse for happiness &#8211; being fat or suffering the death of a spouse? Two recent papers suggest the answer is &#8211; being fat. First, Marina-Selini Katsaiti finds that \u201cobesity has a negative and statistically significant effect on individual well being\u201d. She estimates that, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/27\/repost-obesity-widowhood-happiness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost:: Obesity, widowhood &#038; happiness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}