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Article: College-educated white women thinner than blacks? Degree has impact, study finds, citing stress, body image
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 4, 2004
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Going to college protects white women from being overweight but
does little to help African-American women stay trim, a study has
found.
The finding "raises a lot of concern," said health psychologist
Tene Lewis of Rush University Medical Center, who presented the study
Wednesday at a meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society.
Lewis and colleagues examined weight data from 2,017 women from
Chicago, Detroit, Boston and Pittsburgh enrolled in the federal
government's Study of Women's Health Across the Nation.
The women were followed for four years, and had an average age of
46 at the beginning of the study.
Researchers calculated each woman's body mass index, or BMI. A BMI
above 25 is ...