Women with higher incomes and higher education are less likely to suffer from obesity. This conclusion was reached by the staff of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Within the framework of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Program, they studied the relevant data and published their report on the organization's website, RIA Novosti reports.
Only 31% of the high-income participants in the experiment were overweight. At the same time, among those who graduated from the university, the disease was diagnosed only in 27.7%. Basically, this dynamics was manifested in the representatives of the beautiful half of humanity.
In women with low earnings, weight problems were recorded in 45.2%. Girls with an average income were also often at risk - 42.9% had a curvaceous figure. At the same time, Latin American and African American women do not fall under the statistics.
Among men, people with an average income were the most prone to obesity. The corresponding disease was recorded in 38.5%. Among the poor, experts counted 31.5%, and among the rich - 32.6% of the stronger sex. Higher education also contributed to better outcomes than no higher education.
