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Credit Crunch Leads One To Obesity
How? Well, if one goes by the explanation, it's simple indeed. Recession means an increase in price, just about everything, which further leads to debt. And with people's inability to cope up with the rising prices in food grains, there comes a stiff decline in the amount of healthy food that one consumes. This, in turn, exposes a person to obesity.
The researcher blamed the trend on the high price of healthy food, and a tendency for people worried by debt to comfort eat. For this, the researcher worked with a team of researchers to study more than 9000 people, finding that 25 per cent of the 949 people in debt were medically obese, compared to only 11 per cent of the remaining 8318 participants. She said: "The recent credit crunch will have health implications for private households." She adds: "We've shown that debt can be associated with the probability of being overweight or obese, independent of these factors."
The researchers say that debt can affect a series of risk factors for chronic diseases, for example by limiting leisure time activities and participation in social events. One of the researchers even said: "A person's ability to pick and choose the food they eat often depends on the financial resources they have available." He adds, "Energy-dense foods such as sweets or fatty snacks are often less expensive compared to food with lower energy density such as fruit or vegetables."
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