Dos and Don'ts for Millennials That Want to Be Thin and Healthy
Millennials are the first cohort to be born into an obesogenic world - from birth, they have been surrounded by cheap, highly processed, high-calorie tempting foods, and an ever-present marketing machine that promotes them. As young adults they are fatter than their parents at the same age, and are projected to gain 35 pounds in the first 15 years after they finish high school, much earlier and faster than their parents. Once this weight is on, it's hard to shed, and it increases their risk of heart disease, diabetes and metabolic syndrome.
But some in this cohort are resistant to the temptations of high-calorie foods and eat a clean, healthy diet.
A new study in Obesity Reviews, tries to find out what makes a young person, ready to leave home and live independently, into the kind of person that can stay thin and healthy. Learn that, and you can devise a plan that helps others prevent the pitfalls of a lifestyle that causes disease and a lifelong struggle with extra weight.
Looking for what helps and what hinders a young adult from following a trajectory of weight gain, the researchers, led by Margaret Allman-Farinelli, extracted data from 34 research articles, that altogether included about 14,000 young people.
This is what I learned from studying their findings
If you aren't female, have them in your life:
Men, especially young ones, care a lot less about health, or, as the article phrases it: "men adopt machismo and nonchalance towards healthy eating to promote a masc...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
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