Life Health Sciences – Science Rules it All

A recent survey by UCLA study has come up with people’s obsession for weight and their efforts. It says that though media and our social and cultural surroundings emphasis on healthy lifestyle but it fails to encourage sedentary people to adopt healthy lifestyle and have daily regime for exercise.

A renowned journal Obesity in its June issue emphasis on the study that women consider themselves overweight compared to men. The racial group of African Americans is less in number considering themselves overweight compared to whites. Particularly men among adults with average to normal weight have weight problems owing to their sedentary lifestyle and lethargic way of living.

The study also showed that white women are the only racial gender group which has more of active and healthy individuals compared with overweight and average weight. The majority of white women are average weight individuals.

In addition to it, the study also says that contrary to Latina and African Americans, white women have better living style. Their social and cultural surroundings, easy availability of health programs, less responsibility towards child and elder and tailor made work hours thus making the white women’s active.

Dr. Antronette Yancey, lead author of the study and associate professor of health service at the UCLA School of Public Health says that “our society’s importance on weight loss has negative effect on average weight people as it doesn’t emphasis on healthy lifestyle it encourages on weight loss and not on physical activity.

Yancey said” Our Media and cultural surroundings should give importance to healthy lifestyle and physical activities, rather than being obsessed about weight and calorie charts. Owing to less knowledge about healthy lifestyle and our obsession for weight makes it difficult for us to change the perception. A Study conducted by Los Angeles County Department of Health Services with 14,154 eligible adults. Through Body Mass Index individual was classified as obese, overweight, normal or underweight as the reports given by them about their height and weight. Individuals were said to conclude themselves as overweight, average or under weight for their height. International Physical activity questionnaire concluded about their sedentary lifestyle.

A self study of overweight and average weight with sedentary lifestyle among average-weight adults was 45.3 percent and 33.0percent whereas with overweight adults it was 43.4 percent and 33.6percent. It also said about average weight men and overweight men with 38.4 percent and 27.8percent.Overweight whites graphed showed 41.9percent and 29.7percent and those of African Americans and Latinos were 41.6 percent to 33.9percent.

Conclusion of the survey:

The occurrence of overweight and obesity with Angelenos was identical with their race and gender. Among all African Americans and Latinos were most overweight and obese than whites and lowest among overweight are Asians-Pacific Islanders. The ratio was same among men and women in each race.

Women tend to consider themselves overweight compared to men.73.2 percent of non-obese and 24.1 percent of average weight thinks themselves overweight compared to 44.5 percent of non-obese and 5.6of average weight.

60.6 percent of overweight whites and 41.3 percent of overweight/non-obese African Americans considered themselves overweight.

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