Researchers from the Robert Koch Institute in Germany conducted a survey of more than 7 thousand people in an attempt to find out how our attitude towards excess weight relates to the quality of life. So, 7 boys and girls between the ages of 11 and 17 were weighed and rated their weight on a scale from too thin to too fat. Then they all completed a questionnaire on the quality of life.
As a result of the analysis of the collected data, it turned out that about three-quarters of adolescents have normal weight. But 55% of girls and 36% of boys said they were “too much”. Real figures showed overweight in 18% of respondents and lack of weight in 7-8%.
The quality of life of overweight adolescents was lower than that of those whose weight was normal. However, a lot, as it turned out, depends on self-esteem. If the subject thought that he was “too fat”, then his quality of life was invariably lower, regardless of the actual weight. At the same time, if the subject considered his weight to be normal, then the quality of life was at the level of any person with normal weight, regardless of the real figure on the scales.
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