Social and Economic Consequences of Overweight in Adolescence

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Abstract
Gortmaker et al. (Sept. 30 issue)1 found that obese young women were less likely to marry, had lower incomes, and had completed less schooling than nonobese women and that obese young men were less likely to marry than nonobese men. Two issues need further attention: the problem of stigmatization and the direction of causality.