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| Constant anger makes teenagers fat |
| By Medical News Today |
| Published: 03/15/2004 |
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Doctors checked 160 14 to 17-year-olds for three years and found kids with anger problems were more likely to have eating disorders. Professor William Mueller, who led the study, said that teenagers who find it difficult to express their anger healthily tend to become isolated from their peers. They also tend to do less exercise and eat more fatty foods for comfort. These two options, doing less exercise and eating more fatty foods, in combination, will make the teenager put on weight. Researchers said that programs designed to help teenagers lose weight focus solely on the weight rather than the psychological reasons for it. Mueller says that counselors should help overweight teenagers learn how to manage their anger. This would help break the cycle of anger to fat to being teased. Mueller says that an overweight teenager needs to learn to ride a jibe or rude comment and not to take it so much to heart. They also found that the kids who had anger problems-lost their tempers, suppressed their anger about everything, had poor control over their feelings of anger-were heavier than the others. The more in control of their feelings and anger the teenagers were the lighter they were, the less they weighed. Mueller explained these findings at the American Heart Association (AHA) 44th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention. |
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