| 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. |
