Possible association between home environment and weight control

If you want to control your weight, it is generally recommended to start with what you eat and exercise moderately. However, have you ever thought that the living environment may also affect the effectiveness of weight control? "The Lancet Public Health" recently published the latest publication from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK. The research team said that people living near sports facilities such as gyms and swimming pools may have a lower chance of obesity.

In the study, the authors used data from the UK Biobank on subjects aged 40-70 from 2006 to 2010 to analyze whether the presence of sports facilities and fast food restaurants near home was related to an individual's body fat percentage and body mass index (BMI).

The experimental results show that, on average, there is only one sports facility within 1 km of the subjects' homes, and 31.2% of the subjects have no sports facilities within 1 km of their homes. The average distance between the subjects' homes and fast food restaurants was 1.1 kilometers, and 18.5% of the subjects lived less than 0.5 kilometers away from the nearest fast food restaurant. The subjects who could more easily reach sports facilities from their homes had a lower chance of obesity.

The study was published on the website of The Lancet Public Health

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