Overweight Kids: College Less Likely

Kids struggle in high school for a lot of reasons — drugs, lack of interest, trouble at home, to name a few. But a new study in the July issue of Sociology of Education highlights a factor that doesn’t immediately come to mind: obesity.

This is sad but true, and if I reflect back to when I was obese, I would sum it up with this word – confidence. There seemed to be something, subconscious or not, that held me back when I was overweight and unhealthy. Call it superficial, but it is also reality. I wonder if this is an underlying cause…

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