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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Researchers find discrepancies in weight and behavior among women attending two-year and four-year colleges

This has got to be the reason. Time to make all colleges four-year colleges. That'll fix it.
Women who attend two-year colleges may be at greater risk for being overweight and obese than their peers in four-year schools, a new study finds.

Researchers compared weight and other lifestyle factors among men and women attending two-year and four-year colleges. The study included 16,539 students attending 14 two-year colleges and 13 four-year colleges or universities in Minnesota. Through self-reported surveys, study participants noted their weight, physical activity, how much television they watched, how much soda and fast food they consumed, and what methods they used for weight loss.

Women in two-year colleges were more likely to be overweight or obese, engage in less physical activity, watch more television, drink more soda, eat more fast food and use diet pills more than women attending four-year colleges...

When researchers adjusted for factors such as age, race and ethnicity and living situation, most of the associations remained.
But did they adjust for stupid?
All students on average didn't meet national health recommendations.
Never mind.

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