Are You What You Eat and Who You Know? Only If You're a Woman
OK, who isn't sick of counting calories? Or, if you're a Weight Watcher's aficionado like I am, points? Now a new survey is saying not only are we what we eat , we're also who we know. Say what? Put simply, a new study by by Vanderbilt University researchers reveals new nuances in the links between a person’s weight and the socioeconomic status of the people close to them, and suggests that gender plays a significant role in that relationship, according to newswise.com. Though in the West high socioeconomic status is associated with slenderness, the relationship between status and weight is actually more nuanced than that. Using nationally representative data from the 2004 U.S. General Social Survey, Lijun Song, professor of sociology, and graduate students Philip Pettis and Bhumika PiyaSong analyzed the relationship between an individual’s weight as measured by a visual evaluation, the socioeconomic status of the people they’re close to as measured b...