Thursday, August 9, 2012

Normal weight teens who perceive themselves as fat are more likely to become obese

They're everywhere -- in magazines, on the Internet, on television-people with super-thin bodies who are presented as having the ideal body form. But despite the increasing pressure to be thin, more and more of us are overweight. Now, researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have found that normal weight teens who perceive themselves as fat are more likely to grow up to be fat.

URL: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20120809/Normal-weight-teens-who-perceive-themselves-as-fat-are-more-likely-to-become-obese.aspx

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