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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. |
