Obesity: Is It About Poverty or Education?
Posted On December 17, 2010
We are in a race between education and disaster.
(please share this with anyone who thinks education is NOT the answer)
It’s true for our politics, for our society, and for our health. Here’s the bottom line from research from the National Center for Health Statistics: education is more consistently related to obesity than poverty.
As a matter of fact, “Among men, obesity prevalence is generally similar at all income levels, with a tendency to be slightly higher at higher income levels,” the team at the National Center for Health Statistics wrote.
So how does that compare with education?
In this study, just over 27 percent of men with a college degree were obese compared with 32 percent of those with less than a high school education, while 23 percent of women with a college degree were obese, compared to 42 percent of women with less than a high school education.
What about their households?
A second study found children and teens living in homes with college-educated adults were less likely to be obese, and found stronger associations between obesity and income.
Just under 12 percent of boys and girls living in prosperous homes were obese, compared to 21 percent of boys and 19 percent of girls in the poorest homes.
Education. That’s the key. SOUND education … not sound-bites designed to sell some product.
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