-2017 to analyze the relationships between various socio-demographic variables and adult Body Mass Index (BMI) in Suriname. Our … overweight. As expected, this is also true for individuals who have chronic illnesses. The analysis also finds that individuals … who engage in a sport or in other forms of exercise, even if modest, have lower odds of being overweight or obese …

lower body mass index (BMI) and a lower risk of overweight and obesity. However, recent literature started questioning the … overweight, and the negative link between education and BMI is up to now out of questioning. More educated adults tend to have … mechanism behind this education gradient in BMI. A more recent and alternative explanation is that the BMI-education gradient …