Recent studies say that dining alone can lead to something worse than heartburn. It could boost your risk for heart disease and diabetes. Men, in particular, who ate alone at least twice a day are more likely to have metabolic syndrome than their social-dining peers, the study found.
The study says that many parts of the world, families have become smaller and that there are more single-person households than in the past. At the same time, eating patterns have become irregular, informal and individualized in the form of more eating alone. As a part of the study, nearly 8,000 South Korean adults were asked how often they ate alone. The researchers compared their responses to health data-adjusting for factors like age, lifestyle choices, education levels, job status and exercise.
They found that men who often ate alone had a 45% increased risk of obesity and a 64% increased risk of developing metabolic syndrome. But women who ate alone at the same rate were only 29% more likely to have metabolic syndrome than those who always dined with someone else. One of the reasons may be that people who eat alone are more likely to make unhealthy food.
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