Does this make me look fat?
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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