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The Japanese have identified a link between body weight and the type of person
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Communicative people tend to be overweight, while people are alarming, unapproachable type are likely to be wicked. This conclusion came Japanese researchers studied the relationship between personality types and weight.
Scientists have measured and tested more than 30,000 people aged between 40 and 64 years. The study was conducted in the north-east of Japan. The results are published this month in the Journal of psychosomatic research "(Journal of Psychosomatic Research).
The results showed that people were joiners body mass index (BMI) above 25, which is characteristic of being overweight, said Masako Kakizaki of Tohoku University, who led the study.
After checking other factors, such as smoking, it was found that male ekstraverty in most cases are, on average, at 1.73 times more weight than male introverts. A weight women ekstravertov to 1.53 times more rules.
People that are characterized by heightened anxiety, about twice as likely to have below normal weight, or BMI less than 18.5, according to the findings of specialists.
"These results may serve as the key to a more effective measures to combat overweight, obesity or excessive hudoboy" - noted Kakizaki
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