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Study Finds That Young Girls Who Are Called “Fat” Are More Likely to Be Depressed as Young Adults

Sarah Mustillo, a Purdue University sociologist, has found that young girls who are called “fat” at age 11 or 12, are more likely to develop depressive symptoms in their late teenage years and early 20s, than obese teens who were not ridiculed as fat.