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Fat Teen Trouble: A Sociological Perspective Of Obesity In Adolescents, Katherine Malnor
Fat Teen Trouble: A Sociological Perspective Of Obesity In Adolescents, Katherine Malnor
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While many studies have sought to isolate some of the causes and possible solutions to the growing problem of childhood obesity in the United States, researchers have given scant attention to the influence of social factors on obesity. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, this study examines if social factors can explain adolescent obesity. Models predicting obesity as measured by body-mass-index found that different factors were associated with obesity for males and females, but had poor overall predictive power. Separate analysis of parents’ subjective assessment of adolescent obesity found different influences and no association with objective …