Weight Loss & Pet Names

Weight loss is easier with a partner. Dangerous Dave talks about how your significant other can help or hinder your fitness goals. Plus, pet names we use for each other.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the den with dangerous deed. Did
you know You're more likely to stick to a new
fitness routine if you've got somebody to do it with.
You hold each other accountable, and if it's your significant other,
it can be even easier to fit it into your schedule.
Maybe there's other forces at work too. According to a
new survey, fifty five percent of people with a partner

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on a health journey join them without consciously deciding to,
as if they were mimicking their habits. Forty seven percent
of couples do wellness goals together. They call it the
ultimate relationship hack. Sixty six percent adopting healthier habits together
reduces stress, and sixty two percent of partners who prioritize
wellness as a team end up having more sex. So

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there can be positive influences but also negative ones. Twenty
nine percent of partners have become the top culprit in
derailing the progress by keeping unhealthy snacks at home. And
by the way, it's easier to fall into a diet
with a partner involuntarily. If they're on a diet, it's
easier than making a second dinner. I guess you just
eat they're going to eat, and you settle for the
salad or the veggie pasta instead of making his second

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dinner and making it unhealthy. I find that the easiest
way for me to follow a diet is I'm following
my wife cheaper in the two Well, if you call
your significant other honey, you might be showing your age.
A new poll of twenty five thousand Americans looked at
the most popular pet names used by couples. Honey is
still popular, but trending down. Babe is now the most
popular pet name in America. Honey was second, but used

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mostly by older people. Top five pet names were using
babe at twenty percent overall use it but drops to
ten percent for seniors. Honey at thirteen percent, only six
percent for gen Zers compared to twenty two percent of seniors.
Baby at ten percent. Most popular pet name for gen
Z's at fifteen percent, sweethearted six percent, and love at

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six percent. Two percent said they regularly use the terms deer,
boo bay, or darling, one percent, angel, sugar, or pumpkin.
The poll found half a couple's use pet names for
each other on a regular basis, but ten percent of
people do not use one, including four percent who hate
pet names. My wife has a couple of pet names
for me, but because of FCC obscenity laws, I can't

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tell you what they are to me. Again for another
episode of Deeper in the Den with Dangerous Daved right here.