Weight Status in Young Adults

Aged between 18 and 25 are overweight and obese journal Obesity, according to a study published on the Internet for young adults, overweight and more likely to have best friends and share a romantic overweight than their peers of normal weight friends and family felt comfortable. Also, trying to lose weight reported having social relationships with overweight and obese adolescents had no intention of losing weight.
Because this is an important issue? Forty percent of young adults 18-25 is considered overweight or obese young adults experience the highest rate of pounds a year - usually a £ 2 - every age group. Previous research on the behavior of the continuous social influence health, especially young people who have demonstrated a strong effect, while not the study of social ties among young adults examined whether the effect of weight status and intentions of the weight loss.
Editorial writer Tricia Leahey, PhD, Miriam Hospital Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center and researcher at the same time, fewer young adults are more likely to participate in behavioral interventions for weight loss, when they do, he says, tend adults to lose weight, less than before. "For us, this population, and participation in the treatment of obesity and effective prevention programs can help develop this age group at high risk, the factors that influence the determination of the status and weight control weight," he said.
288 young adults aged between 18 and 25, including the study, 137 (body mass index of 25 or more) are considered overweight or obese, while 151 people, was a normal weight. Most participants were women and the Caucasus. All participants and their weight and dimensions of perception of social norms for obesity and obesity-related behaviors (best friends, romantic partners, friends, casual, family and friends / classmates included) are overweight, the survey is was conducted to determine the number of social contacts.
Overweight and obese participants in the study a supplementary question, to lose weight, encourage them to lose weight, social relations, such as how often people close to them or to lose weight and perceived social norms (trying to determine which part of their social contacts have been completed overweight) to lose weight if I were to confirm and intentions for the next three months to lose weight.
The study is also trying to lose weight were more likely to want to give them greater weight in overweight and obese young adults has shown that social contacts. encouragement and approval of social relations, the account of this combination of social norms, such as weight loss, researchers say.