Happy Thanksgiving!
Glenn Hampson
Some light reading for your pre-holiday excursion, from a paper titled “The effect of the Thanksgiving Holiday on weight gain.” https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2891-5-29 (personally, my problems start with Halloween…).
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Table 3: Body Weight changes by gender, class standing and BMI.
| Body Weight (kg)
|
Pre-Thanksgiving Post-Thanksgiving Δ pre-post | |
Group (N = 94) 72.1 ± 14.0 72.6 ± 14.3* 0.5 ± 1.5 | |
Males (N = 44) 80.2 ± 12.5 80.8 ± 12.7* 0.6 ± 1.9 | |
Females (N = 50) 65.0 ± 11.1 65.4 ± 11.6* 0.4 ± 1.0 | |
Undergraduates (N = 66) 70.3 ± 13.4 70.7 ± 13.7 0.4 ± 1.7 | |
Graduates (N = 28) 76.3 ± 14.8 77.1 ± 15.0* 0.8 ± 0.8 | |
Normal BMI (N = 60) 64.7 ± 9.3 64.9 ± 9.4 0.2 ± 1.6 | |
Overweight/Obese BMI (N = 34) 85.2 ± 11.0 86.2 ± 11.1* 1.0 ± 1.1 | |
Table 2: Changes in waist circumference, hip circumference and waist/hip ratio for the entire sample and by gender, class standing and BMI.
| Δ Waist Circumference (cm) | Δ Hip Circumference (cm) | Δ Waist/Hip Ratio |
Group (N = 94) | -1.14 ± 3.5* | 0.54 ± 4.0 | -0.02 ± 0.04 |
Males (N = 44) | -0.98 ± 3.0* | 0.75 ± 3.0 | -0.02 ± 0.04* |
Females (N = 50) | -1.29 ± 3.8* | 0.36 ± 4.8 | -0.02 ± 0.04* |
Undergraduates (N = 66) | -1.41 ± 3.5* | 0.13 ± 3.9 | -0.02 ± 0.04* |
Graduates (N = 28) | -0.51 ± 3.4 | 1.50 ± 4.2 | -0.02 ± 0.04 |
Normal BMI (N = 60) | -1.25 ± 3.5* | 0.84 ± 4.4 | -0.02 ± 0.04* |
Overweight/Obese BMI (N = 34) | -0.96 ± 3.5 | 0.02 ± 3.2 | -0.01 ± 0.03 |
Means ± Standard deviations
*Significantly different from pre-Thanksgiving visit (P < 0.05)
BMI Categories: Normal <25 kg/m2 and Overweight/obese ≥ 25 kg/m2
Class Standing: Undergraduate and Graduate
Best,
Glenn
Glenn Hampson
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