The Week contest: Marriage pounds
This week’s question: Polish researchers have concluded that getting married triples obesity rates among men, but has no equivalent effect on women. Please come up with a medical term to describe the tendency for men to pile on the pounds after saying “I do.”
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THE WINNER: "Hubbesity"
Jon Eganhouse, Playa del Rey, California
SECOND PLACE: "Groomatoid girthritis"
Jennifer and Carol Dillon, South Bend, Indiana
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THIRD PLACE: "Post-bachelor padding"
Daniel Hicks, Randolph, Massachusetts
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Male pattern roundness"
Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, California
Groom-atoid Scarfi-itis
Bill Levine, Belmont, Massachusetts
"Attachment (to food) disorder"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas, Texas
"Chronic waisting disease"
Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Fat ring finger syndrome"
Peter Gordon, Great Neck, New York
"Post-wedding manspreading"
Joe Ayella, Wayne, Pennsylvania
"Pileitonditis"
Judy Echols, Incline Village, Nevada
"The love bloat"
Michael Maggio, Galloway, New Jersey
"The seven-year inches"
Bill Woodley, Princeton, New Jersey
"XY + XX = XXL"
Roger Black, Ravenna, Ohio