Obese teens: Overweight and healthy-weight teens smoke, drink alcohol at similar rates, study concludes - latimes.com: "Given what we do know about what their day to day life is like, extreme obesity in particular being highly stigmatized, we expected that these teens would be more socially isolated and more peripheral in a peer group, and therefore less likely to be exposed to high risk scenarios that a typical teen is exposed to.”
Zeller said she could have guessed an opposite conclusion—that socially, obese teens “are so impaired they are hanging out with kids who are more peripheral as well.”
But now the numbers, at least some of them, are in. Best not to assume."
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