WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) -- People with high neuroticism and low conscientiousness personality traits are likely to go through cycles of gaining and losing weight, U.S. researchers found.
Angelina R. Sutin of the National Institute on Aging said impulsivity was the strongest predictor of being overweight -- study participants who scored in the top 10 percent on impulsivity weighed an average of 22 pounds more than those in the bottom 10 percent.