Ned Sonntag
Outermost Hoodoo Doctor
As I've noted before, if anyone is 'the obesity society' it's the DIMENSIONS community...:huh:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/1500AP_Diet_Freshman_15.html?source=mypi
Studies: College kids packing on pounds
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP MEDICAL WRITER
BOSTON -- The "Freshman 15" is more like 5 to 7, but it is followed by the "Sophomore 2 or 3," say researchers who led two of the largest and longest studies ever done of weight gain among college students. The research also showed that males piled on significantly more pounds than females.
Doctors say it is good news that the number of pounds gained is less than the widely believed 15, but bad news that "Generation XL" kids seem to be learning patterns of gradual weight gain that could spell trouble way beyond graduation.
"It may be 10 or 8, but it continues. That, to me, is a bigger problem," said Rena Wing, a psychologist and director of the weight control center at Brown University Medical School in Providence, R.I.
She and others at Brown reported the studies Sunday at a meeting of the Obesity Society in Boston...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/1500AP_Diet_Freshman_15.html?source=mypi
Studies: College kids packing on pounds
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP MEDICAL WRITER
BOSTON -- The "Freshman 15" is more like 5 to 7, but it is followed by the "Sophomore 2 or 3," say researchers who led two of the largest and longest studies ever done of weight gain among college students. The research also showed that males piled on significantly more pounds than females.
Doctors say it is good news that the number of pounds gained is less than the widely believed 15, but bad news that "Generation XL" kids seem to be learning patterns of gradual weight gain that could spell trouble way beyond graduation.
"It may be 10 or 8, but it continues. That, to me, is a bigger problem," said Rena Wing, a psychologist and director of the weight control center at Brown University Medical School in Providence, R.I.
She and others at Brown reported the studies Sunday at a meeting of the Obesity Society in Boston...
