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PREVALENCE OF OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY AMONG SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST AFRICAN AMERICAN AND CAUCASIAN COLLEGE STUDENTS.
- Source :
- Ethnicity & Disease; Spring2009, Vol. 19 Issue 2, p111-114, 4p
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- All age, sex, and racial groups are affected by the obesity epidemic in the United States, although disparities exist among these groups. The Seventh-day Adventists are a religious group of people who are believed to live longer and healthier lives than do their non-Adventist counterparts because they do not smoke or drink alcohol and they eat a healthier diet. This study assessed the prevalence of overweight and obesity among Seventh-day Adventist college students attending 2 private universities in the southern United States. Most students' body mass index (65.8%) was within the normal weight category, 3.7% were underweight, 20.6% were overweight, and 9.9% were obese. Body mass index ⩾25 kg/ m² was more prevalent among men and African Americans. In all ethnic subgroups, the prevalence of overweight and obesity was lower than that among non-Adventist students reported in other studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SEVENTH-Day Adventists
OBESITY
OVERWEIGHT persons
HEALTH of college students
HEALTH
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1049510X
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Ethnicity & Disease
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 51202559