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November 4, 2011 - 4:23am
Teens gets nightmare about their obesity
The relationship between sleep and obesity is as prevalent as ever with the latest study proving little sleep means weight gain for teens. The study revealed that teenagers who slept for less than 8 hours every night would consume more calories than those who slept for this length of time and more. Obesity is a risk amongst such a group along with high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke.
255 teenagers were surveyed and reported their weight and height measurements. Their quantity of sleep for both weekdays and weekends were also reported and BMIs were calculated.
The boys averaged at 6 hours and 32 minutes sleep and at weekends they averaged 9 hours and ten minutes sleep. The girls slept for an average of 6 hours and 30 minutes during the week and for 9 hours and 22 minutes at the weekend.
Boys who slept for less than 7 hours on weekdays had an average BMI of 3.8% higher than those who slept for more than 7 hours. And for the girls, the same goes. Those who slept for less than 7 hours on weekdays also had higher BMIs. This averaged out at 4.7% higher than teenage girls who had more than 7 hours of sleep.
The difference in average weights between the two genders is believed to be down to the changes that take place in the human body during puberty. Hormones affect both sexes differently.
The study was presented at the 77th annual meeting at the American College of Chest Physicians and provides for some interesting and concrete associations betweenEDITED
, sleep and weight gain.
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Kids and Obesity is a big problem. Agreed. Lack of sleep may be part of the problem. Having nightmares about it, so what.
Want to get teens and obesity issues cut way down?
Take away their phones and texting, take away their video games and controllers, take away their unlimited internet access. Then kick their fat butts out the front door and get them to go play ACTIVE sports with their friends. Not INACTIVE games on tv. The only thing healthy on these kids is their thumbs and fingers.
Take away their FAST FOOD crap they eat because we are all in such a hurry we can't slow down. That's BS. Slow down, eat a healthy meal, and actually chew it and take more than 5 minutes. That means parents have to slow down, stop making excuses, and cook them decent meals.
Of course that is just my opinion. I haven't done a double-blind case study to show that lack of or no exercise and horrible diet could be related. I could be way off base here, I'm not a doctor... lol
They dont sleep because they dont get enough exercise, fast foods and eating by the computer all the junk foods and cola. Its a no brainer. This is not something that people are not aware of, But they let kids do it anyways. Its child abuse when parents dont know how to raise there kids and allow them to do nothing but play on computer , play video games and watch tv.
Take away all this that prevents the kids from living a healthy life style, Sports. Sports sports. You play enough sports and they can eat anything they want,
Americans make nothing but excuses why there is so much health issues and obesity in this country, Its easier to sit around and run a study then accept the obvious,
Find something else to blame other then the obvious, Or parents dont know how to say no to there kids because they might hurt the kids feelings,
Soon kids will be raising there parents because parents had kids that they have no idea how to raise, Git-ir- done.
With the way our economy is going maybe it will reset the clock back 60 years and kids will have to realise there parents cant buy them all these video games and cell phones and computers and they will go to work like most of us did if they want something in life,
Not just have it handed to them,
That will put an end to the obesity problem,
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I'm not sure what percent of the population being obese constitutes an epidemic level. Sadly it is a large amount and we are either there or almost there.
It starts with the parents. Your mom and dad are overweight or obese, or dare I say that non-PC term, FAT! They don't exercise and have a poor diet. They set a fine example. The kids eat the same diet and sit next to mom and dad also being couch potatoes. Gee, do you think we need a scientific survey to figure out what will happen here?
When we were growing up there was no internet, no one owned a PC or a cell phone. Technology had not taken over our lives. If you wanted to play and have fun. You went outdoors with your friends. The big deal was that you owned a bicycle of some sort. We rode our bikes a lot, usually to get to the field to go play sports. If we weren't playing baseball, football, basketball or hockey. We were probably wrestling, fighting, or something dangerous we shouldn't be doing. We never sat around and watched TV during the day. I got maybe 1 hour of TV at night before bed. Most of never used the telephone, we just met at the usual place and took off from there to go play something.
We didn't eat at McDonalds all day. Heck I think I got an order of fries in my late teens as a treat. We ate at home or our friends house. Our parents made meals. Simple rule, don't like what is on the table, you will tomorrow when you're starving.
Yeah we had some soda and candy. We burned enough calories playing to eat anything, yet we still ate decent meals anyway.
I don't remember but one of my friends being fat. He had medical problems. We still dragged his butt out to play and made him run around. He had no choice, get up and move, or be left out. No politically correct BS. Everyone knew the fat kid was slower and couldn't get thin. So we slowed for him when we went on long bike rides. We didn't leave him behind. I'll bet even as "obese" as he was by today's standard that kid could pedal a bike for miles. I doubt today's fat kids can make it a mile.
What's just as sad is with today's technology you can enhance this process. Getting 100% efficiency from exercise maximizing results with the least effort. Calculated diets so accurate you all but can't miss doing it right. Yet so few chose to do it.
Here's a laugh for you. Approximately 60% are overweight to obese. Not just 5-10lbs. A bunch. Yet when interviewed in a fairly large survey. 75% - 90% of the people said they felt they ate a healthy diet. Hmmm.. That math doesn't work...
Sadly many on this forum use their ailment as an excuse and crutch as to why they don't exercise. They just consider being fat as another downside of having back/neck problems. The reality is we are not "china dolls", you won't break, you can get your obese butt off the couch and do something. Anything. Just get started.