Adolescent Girls Perceiving Lower Social Status are More likely to Be Obese
In a first ever prospectively evaluated research study it was revealed that there exists a strong relationship between the subjective social status in the school community and change in the Body Mass Index (BMI) of the adolescent girls. The higher a teenage girl would perceive herself to be on the social status level the lower will be the possibility of gaining weight in the subsequent 24 months.
Researchers in their published study in the “Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicines” explained that the number of American adolescent girls who are overweight has gone up from 14% in the year 1990 to almost 16% in the year 2004.The study reported that such girls have to face many health complications do have a perception based first social consequence as the discrimination on the weight aspect with immediate effects. Researchers feel it very important to identify the responsible factors contributing to the overweight conditions and developing obesity in order to minimize the health and economic burden.
