Does this make me look fat?

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Mon, 06/30/2008 - 23:00

(Springer) The peer groups teenage girls identify with determine how they decide to control their own figure. So reports a new study just published online in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, a Springer publication.

Also influencing weight control behavior is girls' own definition of normal body weight and their perception of what others consider normal body weight.

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