Obesity
Researchers link womens’ obesity to inactivity during teen years
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A decrease in active lifestyles is likely to promote Obesity in teenage girls as they transition to womanhood, a study by University of Miami School of Medicine researchers found, but, when interviewed by Forbes, Dr. Robert Kramer said the study showed a correlation, not a cause-and-effect link.
Weight gain during life’s changes frustrates women
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For most of her life, Janice Hall was small. Not just petite, at 4-foot-10, but thin, too.
But after having her second child, a son, at age 40, her body seemed to shift. “I noticed a huge difference in being unable to lose weight,” recalls the Rochester nurse.
Over time, she attributed it to the postpartum period, then age, then stress. But after she hit 50, meticulously trimmed her calories, continued her workouts and still saw the scale number climb, Hall got irked.
