Rapidly Developing Overweight in School Children as an Indicator of Psychosocial Stress

Mellbin, Tore; Vuille, J. C.

doi:10.1111/j.1651-2227.1989.tb17938.x

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“…6,7 Adolescents have been shown to use eating as a means of coping with stress. 25 Putting on weight, as well as the poor academic performance, in our grades 7 ± 9 group could possibly be the consequence of social environmental factors, for example, stress in school. The grades 3 ± 6 students, being younger, probably have other ways of dealing with the stress.…”

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School performance and weight status of children and young adolescents in a transitional society in Thailand

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OBJECTIVE: To study the association between current or previous weight status and school performance among children and young adolescents of Hat Yai municipality, southern Thailand. DESIGN: Cross-sectional and longitudinal study SETTING: Primary and secondary schools of Hat Yai municipality, southern Thailand. SUBJECTS: 1207 grades 3 ± 6 and 587 grades 7 ± 9 students. MEASUREMENTS: Body mass index (BMI, kgam 2 ) calculated from weight and height measurement of subjects in 1992 and 1994; parental education level and occupation, and monthly income, by questionnaire performed in 1992; gradepoint-average (GPA) and grades of mathematics and Thai language from the school records of ®nal examinations in 1994. RESULTS: Overweight subjects (BMI value b 85th percentile of the NHANES-I data for age and gender) in grades 7 ± 9 had a mean GPA 0.20 point (95% con®dence internal (CI) 0.04, 0.37) lower than that of the normal weight children after controlling for gender, age, school and grade. They were twice more likely to have low grades (lower than 2 on the scales of 0 ± 4) of mathematics and Thai language than normal weight children. There were no associations between GPA or individual subject grades and previous BMI status in 1992. Children in grades 7 ± 9 who became overweight over the two years, had a mean GPA of 0.48 point lower than those who did not become overweight (95% CI 0.12, 0.84). In grades 3 ± 6 subjects, however, becoming overweight had no effect on GPA and individual subject scores. CONCLUSIONS: Our study showed that being overweight and becoming overweight during adolescence (grades 7 ± 9) was associated with poor school performance, whereas such an association did not exist in children (grades 3 ± 6).

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“…There is little research on stress and weight gain in children, but stress seems to precede weight gain (4). A powerful risk factor for the development of obesity is parental neglect (5), which many investigators consider to be related to stress.…”

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“…In adults, stress precedes weight gain (1), particularly gains in visceral fat (2,3). There is less research on stress and weight gain in children, but research in children has shown stress precedes weight gain (4,5). Stress can influence obesity by stimulating energy intake (6), and children may use snacking as a stress coping mechanism (7).…”

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Dietary Restraint and Stress‐Induced Snacking in Youth

2002

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ROEMMICH, JAMES N., SUZANNE M. WRIGHT, AND LEONARD H. EPSTEIN. Dietary restraint and stressinduced snacking in youth. Obes Res. 2002;10:1120 -1126. Objective: To determine whether dietary restraint modifies stress-induced eating in youth. Research Methods and Procedures: Snacking was measured in boys (9.5 Ϯ 0.3 years) and girls (9.0 Ϯ 0.3 years), with and without dietary restraint, across a control day after reading children's magazines and/or coloring, and on a stress day after giving a videotaped speech, with order of conditions counterbalanced. Children were divided into four groups based on dietary restraint and changes in perceived stress: low-restraint/low-reactive (n ϭ 9), low-restraint/ high-reactive (n ϭ 13), high-restraint/low-reactive (n ϭ 10), and high-restraint/high-reactive (n ϭ 8). Body composition was estimated by skinfolds. Results: Energy intake of snack foods was influenced differently by dietary restraint and stress reactivity in the stress and control conditions (p Ͻ 0.01). After being stressed, low-restraint/low-reactive children ate fewer snacks and high-restraint/high-reactive children ate more snacks compared with the control condition. After covarying for percentage of body fat, the interactions remained (p Ͻ 0.01). Girls ate less than boys (p Ͻ 0.001), but sex did not influence eating in control and stress conditions. Discussion: Dietary restraint occurs in children and may influence the effect of stress on eating. Interpersonal stress decreases snacking in low dietary restrained youth but increases snacking in high dietary restrained children, perhaps because of stress-induced disinhibition.

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“…Stress or anxiety is related to higher body weight, [18][19][20] particularly in women. 21 Stress-induced eating can trigger onset and relapses of obesity and increase preferences for high fat and/or sweet foods.…”

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Religion and body weight

2003

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OBJECTIVES:Relationships between religion and body weight were examined in a US national sample. METHODS: Data from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS), collected through telephone and postal questionnaires, were analyzed for 3032 adults aged 25-74. RESULTS: Religious denomination was significantly related to higher body weight in men after accounting for sociodemographic controls. Conservative Protestant men had a 1.1 7 0.45 higher body mass index (BMI) than those reporting no religious affiliation. Other religion variables that initially had significant relationships with greater body weight before adjusting for control variables became nonsignificant after smoking was controlled. No significant relationships between religion and body weight were present in women. CONCLUSIONS: Religious denomination was related to body weight in men. Other dimensions of religiosity showing a relationship with higher BMI appeared to be because of the lower rates of smoking among more religious individuals.

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Rapidly Developing Overweight in School Children as an Indicator of Psychosocial Stress

Cited by 56 publications

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School performance and weight status of children and young adolescents in a transitional society in Thailand

School performance and weight status of children and young adolescents in a transitional society in Thailand

Dietary Restraint and Stress‐Induced Snacking in Youth

Religion and body weight

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