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Recently, a research study was conducted
on the emerging obesity issue in the United States. The findings
pointed to the predictability of the endemic. At the Santa Barbara
Institute for Medical Nutrition and Healthy Weight, Dr. John
La Puma along with colleagues studied self-reported data from
more than 390 practicing physicians regarding their consumption
habits.
A
comprehensive aspect of the study reviewed the correlation between
domestic related stress coalesced with professional stress in
the workplace. Both types of stress factors were forecasted
in medical professionals who were overweight and were depicted
in the calculation of their Body Mass Index or BMI (p=.001).
Other
common denominators were the propensity to consume food during
feelings of loneliness or a way of making food the pay-off or
reward. Additionally, the doctors who consumed food from the
hospital cafeteria, or ordered were more apt to be overweight
than the physicians who carried their lunch.
For
the vast majority of physicians stress is just another element
of the job. Since many physicians work in environments where
food is everywhere in the workplace, it’s easy for doctors to
fall in the pitfall of overeating. The finding of the research
study showed a relationship with weight in physicians who carried
their lunch to work.
The
evaluations of the consumption habits took the race, gender
and age as other areas of review. Only, eight percent were obese
and another forty-four percent of the physicians were overweight.
Generally the male physicians who were over the age of 46 were
twice as likely to be male. Over 25 percent were female and
50 percent.
The
conclusion of the study determined that since physicians are
more prone to over indulging with food, stress-management could
prove to be a good tactic to circumvent the urge to splurge. |
