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Doctors explain the causes. Exercise can cause short-term weight gain due to increased muscle, water retention, inflammation, medication, or thyroid issues. ... unexplained weight gain after ...
Weight loss seems to get all the attention, but there are plenty of cases where weight gain can actually be the best thing for your health. Reviewed by Dietitian Jessica Ball, M.S., RD Getty Images.
With higher representation of black people being categorized as overweight by the BMI, the social stigma of obesity disproportionately affects black people. [105] More than 80% of African American women are categorized as overweight using the Body Mass Index. [106]
A lesser-known fact about weight loss is that your body’s needs and metabolism change after losing weight, according to research.To put it into context, a 110-pound person requires much fewer ...
For most minority groups, discrimination contributes to a sense of belongingness, a community in opposition to a majority. Gay people like other gay people; Mormons root for other Mormons. Surveys of higher-weight people, however, reveal that they hold many of the same biases as the people discriminating against them.
The Bahamas have a major obesity epidemic: 48.6% of people between 15 and 64 years old are obese. [57] A female adolescent from the Bahamas is more likely to be overweight than her male counterpart. In Jamaica, 7.2% of men over the age of 20 are obese, while 31.5% of women are obese. [58]
A study, involving more than 12,000 people tracked over 32 years, found that social networks play a surprisingly powerful role in determining an individual's chances of gaining weight, transmitting an increased risk of becoming obese from wives to husbands, from brothers to brothers and from friends to friends.
The obesity paradox is also relevant in discussion of weight loss as a preventative health measure – weight-cycling (a repeated pattern of losing and then regaining weight) is more common in obese people, and has health effects commonly assumed to be caused by obesity, such as hypertension, insulin resistance, and cardiovascular diseases.