Nearly half of U.S. adults gained weight during the first year of the pandemic, making a national obesity crisis even worse, a new study shows.
changes in the past year for adult Americans," said lead researcher Jagdish Khubchandani, a public health professor at New Mexico State University."We wanted to estimate weight changes in the U.S. population and its determinants after the first year of the pandemic."
To do that, Khubchandani and his colleagues surveyed more than 3,400 adults and found that 48% said they gained weight during the first 12 months of the pandemic — March 2020 to April 2021.were more likely to be male, white or Hispanic, married, aged 45 or older, have a full-time job, have less than a college education, and to live in southern and western states or rural areas.
The researchers also found that people were more likely to have gained weight if they were overweight before the pandemic , had children at home , hadThe study was published in the January issue of the journalThe finding that weight gain was more likely among certain groups already vulnerable to poorer health outcomes is concerning, Khubchandani said.
The pandemic may widen existing health disparities and increase the chronic disease burden for some groups, he explained. "It's a perfect health storm," Khubchandani said in a university news release."The U.S. consists of an adult population where the majority suffer from a chronic disease, are either overweight or obese, do not meet the
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