Originally published October 19 2005
Study shows that losing a little weight can improve your sex life
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Duke University psychologist Martin Binks led a study of 161 women and 26 men, and found that by their third month of losing weight, the study population was reporting tremendous improvements in the quality of their sex lives.
Losing a little weight can do wonders for your sex life.
So says Duke University psychologist Martin Binks, who presented a study Monday at a meeting of The Obesity Society showing that shedding a few pounds can improve things in the bedroom by making people feel better about their bodies.
"You reap a lot of benefit from a moderate weight loss of 10 percent," Binks said.
Improving your sex life "would be another good reason to lose weight if you're obese."
All were enrolled in a diet program at the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis and had lost 17.5 percent of their body weight after one year and 13 percent after two years.
"The number of males in the study does limit what we can say about men," but feelings of unattractiveness and unwillingness to be seen naked also applied to them, Binks said.
Both were a healthy weight when they married 42 years ago, until she started to "show love" by cooking massive amounts of food.
She and her husband ballooned to 237 and 355 pounds, respectively, and their sex life suffered.
Carlene Wellington was embarrassed by her body.
Her husband recalled the day 13 years ago - after the couple had just lost a combined 200 pounds - when he looked at wife one morning and told her she had a cute butt.
The Wellingtons are leaders in their local chapter of TOPS, or Take Off Pounds Sensibly, an international support group that had a display at the obesity conference in Vancouver.
The prospect of a better sex life could motivate some overweight people to shed pounds, said Dr. Ahmed Kissebah, an obesity expert at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and medical adviser to TOPS.
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