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Article: Fuel or Fixation: What Role Does Food Play in Your Life?(includes related information, and related interview with actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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Millions of American teens are overweight, while others are literally starving themselves. What's going on? Here's how what you eat affects your health.
Classmates called David "Beluga Boy" and other nasty names. He'd been overweight for years. When he was in sixth grade, he was 5'3" tall and weighed 145 pounds.
Meanwhile, Gina wanted the perfect dancer's body. Afraid of being fat, the 5'8" girl ate hardly anything. When she finally collapsed and was admitted to the hospital, she weighed just 99 pounds. Doctors diagnosed her eating disorder as anorexia nervosa.
Why does food have such opposite effects on teens' lives?
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