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Here are a few stories for today:
“A startling number of overweight and normal weight women of reproductive age inaccurately perceive their body weight, affecting their weight-related behaviors and making many vulnerable to cardiovascular and other obesity-related diseases, according to new research from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston.”
“Both the rate and direction of axon growth in the spinal cord can be controlled, according to new research by USC College’s Samantha Butler and her collaborators.”
“Add this to your list of worries, high schoolers: daylight savings time might mess with your college admissions. For decades, scientists have debated whether spring and fall time changes affect everything from seasonal affective disorder to traffic accidents. The idea is that resetting clocks by “springing forward” and “falling back” can upset sleep patterns and with them the ability to concentrate…”
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stephanielow · November 23, 2010 at 3:46 pm
the article “chubby? you probably don’t know it!”, I believe was extremely relevant. With the risk of cardiovascular disease runing in my family, I believe that it is extremely important to maintain normal body weight. However, I am friends with people who, as the article explains, do not even realize they are overweight. I think that we should do more to increase awareness of our body weight and how most misperceive it.
natzafis · November 27, 2010 at 6:58 pm
The article “chubby? you probably don’t know it!” definitely reflects the seriousness of the growing obesity epidemic and the negative health impacts of misperceptions of body weight among women. It was shocking to me that more than half of reproductive-age women in the US, which is about 18-25 years old, are considered overweight or obese by BMI standards. I thought that the study they conducted and the titles they gave to each of the four groups of women, ranging from “overweight misperceivers” to “normal weight accurate perceivers,” was an effective way of characterizing the views of American women in a society where overweight is becoming more and more commonplace and normal weight is not skinny enough. The article and overall study demonstrates how crucial it is for women especially to understand the reality of their own body weight and weight-related behaviors in order to maintain healthy ways of life and better success in obesity prevention programs.
Katy Lackey · December 1, 2010 at 6:35 pm
The article about daylight savings time hurting test scores of high school students taking the SAT was interesting, although the results seemed to be too generalized to be significant. It’s an obvious equation: proper amounts of sleep equate to better concentration. The study needed to address other variables that may be affecting the differences in scores such as diet, exercise, hours of sleep, mental capacity,etc. Although I can agree that after day light savings I feel out of tune for a few days, the change of times is not to the point where my grades lower. I think it would have been helpful to provide ways to raise the scores, like a full of sleep, rather than an ambiguous warning to avoid certain test dates.
anjames · December 2, 2010 at 3:57 pm
I would be very interested to see more research on the correlation between weight and perception of weight among women. With obesity becoming and epidemic in our country I think it would be paramount to understand something like this; is the difference between women of different ethnicities simply due to differences in cultural norms or is it a difference driven by something like money and social standing? I think understanding details such as these might help to better understand the mindset of today’s overweight population and how to help solve the problem.
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