Mar/090
Adolescents and risk obesity. Self-esteem plays a key role
Research published on the Archives of Pediatric Medicine and conducted by the Department of Health of New York has established a clear correlation between low self-esteem in young girls and the risk of becoming obese. A study that involved 4400 girls aged 12 to 18 years has shown that adolescents who perceive themselves as unpopular were 69% more likely to become obese than those who perceive themselves as loved and accepted by their peers. It has long known the relationship between obesity and social factors and emotional, but this research, as stated goutham Rao, director of the Center for obesity child hospital in Pittsburgh, has the merit of placing in connection with this disorder lack self-esteem.
But not all experts have enthusiastically welcomed the results of research in New York. Dr. Judith Myers-Walls of Purdue University, for example, believes that it is possible to determine whether the low self-esteem to induce young people to eat more and thus to gain weight or whether instead the very fact of being overweight cause collapse in their self-esteem. In any case, the adolescent obesity is a problem that has wide spread in all industrialized countries and which is necessary to promptly remedy. Only in Italy, as noted Erio Ziglio, head of the WHO Venice, are obese 20% of children between thirteen and seventeen.
The solution can be sought only in the prescription of a slimming diet; you need it, say experts, raising awareness among young people towards greater awareness of themselves and towards adopting a healthier lifestyle. About then the undeniable influence of social and emotional adolescent obesity, Adina Lemeshow, one of the teenagers who participated in the study then became a researcher at the Department of Health in New York, proposes implementing prevention programs that focus too Development, by boys, social skills that help them meet the challenges of daily life requires and that may seem insurmountable at a delicate stage of life such as adolescence.
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