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Health Counseling For The Overweigh Adolescent Girl, Elizabeth J. Handley
Health Counseling For The Overweigh Adolescent Girl, Elizabeth J. Handley
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This study was undertaken for the purpose of seeing how a health counseling program for overweight adolescent girls could be developed in a secondary high school setting. Initially, the study developed out of an awareness and concern for the problem of obesity among teenage girls, especially those in a secondary school. To provide a strong background for the use in both planning and executing a health counseling program, the study reviewed the health literature dealing especially with several topics:
a. The prevalence of obesity.
b. The relationship of obesity to mental and physical health.
c. The influence of food faddisms …