Increasing Adolescent Obesity Among Girls: How School Stress is the New Scapegoat When the Skinny Fat Phenomenon and Twinkie Diets Really are to Blame.
Image 1: Was it school stress that cost Michelle Obama her famous "guns" (=muscular upper arms)? Probably not - and despite contrary conclusions in the study at hand, I doubt that it is school stress that leaves our daughters fat, but undermuscled. What do you say? According to the results of a recent evaluation of the data from the European HELENA trial, school, or rather the stress your children are exposed to within the educational system, may be one of the reasons for the increasing number of obese adolescents (age 12-18 years) - at least if we trust the statistical finesse of Tineke De Vriendt, Els Clays and 10 other scientists who recently published a paper on European adolescents’ level of perceived stress and its relationship with body adiposity in the European Journal of Public Health ( DeVriendt. 2011 ). The study was part of the Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence cross-sectional study (HELENA-CSS) , the aim of which is to obtain "reli...