Silent Acceptance and perception of obesity
May 19, 2011
The recent study by an American medical team has it that many overweight moms are rather oblivious of the fact that such abnormal weight-gain by their kids can actually be a dangerous condition. Very few of those overweight respondents wanted to shed the extra pounds. What is more, they have continued that very lifestyle that was to blame for the syndrome. The researcher attributed their unwillingness to do so to the simple reason that those people with the extra unhealthy pounds deemed their weight as rather normal!
The study was carried out by a team of health experts led by Nicole E. Dumas, M.D., an internal medicine resident at Columbia University Medical Center, in New York. Notwithstanding the fact that the health field study was not comprehensive for the entire American population, the disturbing aspect of the study is that there is an increasing trend among overweight people to silently accept the presence of excess flab. The study has shed light on how weight perception operates across generations.
Dr Dumas presented the preliminary findings at a conference on nutrition, physical activity, and metabolism of the American Heart Association in Atlanta recently. She has pointed out that other studies have found similar trends among Caucasians African and Americans.
