'Feeling Fat' Is Worse Than Being It, German Study Finds
Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 23:28
in Health & Medicine
The quality of life of adolescents who think they are too fat is worse than for adolescents who really are obese. This was a result of the all Germany Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS) of the Robert Koch Institute, as presented by Bärbel-Maria Kurth and Ute Ellert in the current edition of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International.
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