Quite strange but true that if you are obese, you won’t think at least about committing suicide. This conclusion is the result of a long study that began in 1986 and surveyed 45,000 men. According to the experts who conducted this study, men with higher BMI were 42 per cent less likely to commit suicide than those at the lower end of the normal weight range.
Here it is worth mentioning that researchers have strongly associated this study with men and not with women because they think that hormonal system of women is quite different from that of men; therefore, findings of this study may not be fit for women with higher BMI.
However, the reason behind this equation is not very clear even to these researchers. Still, they believe that it might be linked to their (men with higher BMI) higher production of insulin and other hormones that affect mood.
This finding is no doubt, quite strange but it opens new vistas for researchers to explore and find out how higher BMI is linked to lesser inclination to commit suicide. Secondly, it is like a challenge for the researchers to prove authenticity of this finding with more concrete evidences because earlier studies have linked obesity with several mental as well as physical disorders, especially with depression, which is known as one of the factor that prompts to commit suicide.
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Via: LA Times
