## 3 Results and Discussion
However, because, in our study, the majority of the respondents followed a sedentary lifestyle, any potential over-estimation of BMI due to increased lean mass weight can be neglected. Our data analysis showed that body shapes for people who have no physical activities are highly concentrated for apple and pear shapes, which are believed theoretically to be a fat deposit indicator for men and women. At the same time, however, that does not mean that people who practice more have better body shapes. The reason is that the sample for whom the analysis was performed was relatively lowly active, so the results for the opposite hypothesis are not significant nor reliable. The apple shape, which is more predominant for women at an advanced age (\(\geq 55\) years old), can be linked to the hormonal imbalance that usually follows menopause, as many studies had already proven. Although women show more interest in losing weight than men do, according to [PERSON], our findings did not indicate a significant difference between both genders when it comes to the body-image satisfaction. The youngest women were found to be more satisfied with their body shape, especially those having a normal BMI. There is a negative correlation between body-image satisfaction and BMI as well as with ageing between gender, except for men showing a low level of body-image satisfaction; in this case, a weak correlation was found with ageing. It is noteworthy that a significant high association was detected between gender for the body-image satisfaction of the participants working part-time. Medium to high significance between gender was found for those interested in losing weight among the married participants having two children and working full time. Theoretically and according to many studies such as those led by [PERSON], stress is related to abdominal fat deposit, leading to an apple body shape, whereas, in our research, stress was not found to be associated with an apple body shape except for stress emerging from studying, but this time with an opposite effect; in fact, participants with stress are less likely to have an apple shape than those with no stress. Emotional eating and behaviour toward food have a stronger effect on manipulating BMI than stress does by itself. For instance, theoretically, chronic stress leads to obesity, but emotional stress seems to be more important to study and examine. Participants who were asked about the effect of stress said that they ate less as a consequence; this is why their BMI was lower than expected. Some bad habits, such as smoking cigarettes and consuming alcohol, were found to be linked to obesity in our research findings. Smoking was theoretically linked to appetite decrease, and its cessation leads to possible obesity according to many articles and authors, such as [PERSON] et al. and [PERSON]. In contrast, hours of sleep were theoretically linked to weight management. Similarly, supplement intake for weight loss was also, as in theory, not linked to weight loss, showing no effect of its indication of use, unlike supplements for detox and general well-being, which showed a significant effect on weight loss. Nevertheless, many theoretical topics were neither validated nor verified in our study because they were beyond the quantitative analysis and needed further implications. The subjects concerned the role of dietitians in assisting the patients during their weight loss, detox techniques, the therapeutic effect of meal replacements, in addition to the effect of non-invasive slimming machines, and some anthropometric measures, such as waist and neck circumferences. These need specific research aiming at a population following a strict diet, and the research should be comparative, and the data should be taken during the therapy; afterwards, its effectiveness to should be checked, even after more than two years, to monitor the success whenever present.