Do you have an obese personality?

A famous study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2007 found that social networks promote obesity - obese people tend to network with other obese people and the size of the obesity network increases over time.

In other words, obesity is contagious.

A literature review conducted by German scientists found that some personality types are more prone to obesity. Impulsive people - people who do things spontaneously - have an increased risk of obesity. Neurotic behavior - overly anxious people who show signs of anxiety, depression, anger, confusion, low self-esteem and a tendency toward perfectionism - can predict a tendency toward obesity in women, but not in men. Extroverted behavior (social and friendly people) is associated with obesity in both genders. In addition, the scientists found another striking feature in these test subjects: their cognitive abilities were extremely pronounced.

About 69 percent of Americans are obese or overweight, which encompasses a lot of personality types.

(Obesity Review, 16: 32 - 63, 2015)