| 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. |
