Adolescent Obesity

The adolescent years are a time when body image is crucial and peers can be painfully critical (Morrill, Leach, Shreeve, & Radebaugh, 1991). The presence of an eating disorder in this critical period can seriously harm an adolescent physically as well as mentally. Although the tendency to leave out obesity when thinking about eating disorders, the most prevalent eating disorder is overeating, or binge-eating. There has been a 75% relative increase in adolescent obesity over the past 3 decades …

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