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In Britain, where back-to-school ads feature overweight models, a professor made headlines by calling for health warnings on labels in extra-large clothes. "Any child with a waist of 36 inches and over should seek medical help urgently," said Mike Lean, Head of Human Nutrition at Glasgow University.
In this country, the number of people who say they find overweight people less attractive has shrunk from 55 percent 20 years ago to 24 percent today, according to the market research firm NPD Group. But other researchers dismissed the results as a sign that people are increasingly worried about sounding politically incorrect, and that biases against overweight people are probably stronger than ever.
The same study bears that out: Obese boys and girls were half as likely to date as normal-weight kids.
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Clueless Parents, Part II: Drugs and Alcohol
Parents can also be delusional when it comes to their teenagers and substance abuse. The vast majority--80 percent--told researchers that neither alcohol nor marijuana is usually available at parties that their teens attend.
Meanwhile, 50 percent of teenagers said they had been at parties where alcohol and drugs were being used.
Only 12 percent of parents see drugs and alcohol as a problem for their children, while 27 percent of teenagers ranked it as their biggest concern. The findings were part of an annual survey done by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse.
The survey found that teens who regularly ate dinner with their families and attended church were less at risk for substance abuse, along with teens who slept more than eight hours a day.
