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August 19, 2009
In Today's Issue
- Overweight? Shocking Proof that it may not be your fault
- Teens With Overweight Friends Develop Weight Problems Of Their Own
- This Doctor Dropped 10 Sizes - Discover Her Shocking Secret
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Teens With Overweight Friends Develop Weight Problems Of Their Own
Dear Reader,
As any parent of a teen can tell you, friends are all-important to this age group.
Now there's increasing evidence that the company a teen keeps might affect more than just their taste in clothes and music. It may also impact their weight and eating habits.
New U.S. research out of the University of Hawaii uncovered a strong link between the weight of teens and their closest peers.
While teens are still likely to eat some of their meals with it's the meals with peers that researchers suspect offer chances to influence each other's food choices and eating patterns.
Levels of activity are likely to be acquired in the same way, and we all know how limited exercise is in the teen world of video games and TV. A recent survey has a startling 25% of young people aged 12-21 reporting no rigorous activity as part of their day.
The work, appearing in the journal Economics and Human Biology raises the idea of imitative obesity.
Data on just about 5,000 teens reveals that friendships tended to be grouped according to weight. Overweight kids hung out with others of the same weight and slimmer teens did the same.
Many of the teens took part in a follow up after two years that found that having a fat friend could lead to weight gain as time went on.
This study can't say for certain whether overweight teens encourage friends to be heavier, or if heavier teens just naturally find each other. Lots of times teens carrying more weight are scorned by thinner peers, leaving them to befriend each other.
Either way, the shared bad habits of eating unhealthy foods and not exercising are dangerous trends for anyone, especially the young.
"Other work has shown that you take on the weight attributes of your friends more than other people surrounding you... even if your friends live many miles away," explains Tam Fry of the U.K. based National Obesity Forum. "If you go to dinner with your friends who are fat you are liable to eat the same foods that made them fat."
Finding out if a teen is overweight is more of a challenge than you might think as kids at this age are still growing and changing.
Body types are different, even those of the same height can be more or less muscular or further developed, and this discrepancy is perfectly normal. BMI charts for teens (one for guys, one for girls) use percentile lines to let you compare your own BMI with those of a very large group of the same age and gender.
Continues below...
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Teens With Overweight Friends Develop Weight Problems Of Their Own Continued...
Still, being overweight, even at this age, isn't just about how you look, it's also about how you feel and the health of your body. Teens often feel like nothing bad can ever happen to them, but being overweight can affect your joints, breathing, mood, energy levels and sleep - virtually every area of your life. And not in a good way.
What's worse, teens who are carrying those extra pounds are now more at risk for being diagnosed with problems that used to be found only in adults. High cholesterol, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes to name a few.
To your good health,
Kirsten Whittaker
Daily Health Bulletin Editor
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Sources:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8172258.stm
The journal Economics & Human Biology:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/
622964/description
Dr. Sally Kwak of University of Hawaii:
http://www.economics.hawaii.edu/people/faculty/kwak.html
Paper "Weight Gain in Adolescents and Their Peers":
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kwaks/obesity_may09.pdf
More information on peer effects on teen behavior:
http://jhfowler.ucsd.edu/estimating_peer_effects.pdf
Info on when teen overweight is a health problem:
http://kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness/dieting/obesity.html
Teen BMI (KidsHealth) BMI Calculator:
http://kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness/dieting/weight_height.html#
Overweight teen:
http://www.overweightteen.com/
National Obesity Forum:
http://www.nationalobesityforum.org.uk/
Tam Fry of National Obesity Forum:
http://www.nationalobesityforum.org.uk/about-the-nof-mainmenu-100/the-nof-trustees-mainmenu-159/129-tam-fry.html
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