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Popularity May Affect Weight Gain
It may be that popularity can affect your health. A new study shows that girls who see themselves as unpopular are more likely to gain weight than girls who do not. The study asked 4,400 girls between the ages of 12 and 18 to rate where they were in social ranking, with one being the lowest to 10 being the highest.
Two years later, the researchers checked back with them. The girls who said they were unpopular were 69 percent more likely to have gained weight. Researchers do studies like this to find out what makes kids gain too much weight so they can figure out ways to help them.
The researchers know that slim teenagers are more popular. Now they want to know if the overweight girls gained weight because they weren't popular, or if they weren't popular because they gained weight. This new study shows that girls may be more likely to gain weight because they aren't popular.
More research must be done, but what we do know is that diet and exercise are important for your health, whether you think you are popular or not. It's also important for parents and adults who work with kids to help kids to find friends and feel better about who they are. That can help them develop healthy habits that will stay with them their entire lives.
I'm Adelbert and that's what happened in Science this week!
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