OBESITY WARNINGS AN 'EXCUSE' TO DIET
Warnings about the obesity epidemic are having dangerous and unintended consequences as more girls go on crash diets, MPs have been told.
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I was over weight as a teenager myself, it was rough. I was in football but still got made fun of in junior high and high school. If you continually say that its bad, unattractive, and unhealthy to be fat, then you have to expect people, especially teens, to react to that in the only ways available to them. Crash diets are the only thing really available that teens can do on their own, by them selves.
RESEARCHERS STUDY BENEFITS, RISKS OF TEEN WEIGHT-LOSS SURGERY
Seventeen-year-old Amanda Munson gained confidence and energy as she lost 40 of her 296 pounds after weight-loss surgery and her diabetes went into remission.
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