Topic: Breaking news: depression linked to being overweight
Homestar !RUNNERV7vk started this discussion 15 years ago#10,907
Teenage girls who are obese are less likely to be depressed than girls who are simply overweight, French researchers have shown. Their study could support the "fat and jolly" hypothesis, they wrote in the journal BMC Public Health.
The improved well-being could be linked to hormone and neuroendocrine issues related to excess weight or simply could be relief at giving up on a constant weight-loss battle, they suggested.
Their study of almost 40,000 17-year-olds found the link between body mass index and depression was significant in both boys and girls, although a higher proportion of girls were depressed than boys, despite the fact fewer girls were overweight.
While in boys obesity or being underweight were associated with depression, in girls it was being overweight that was linked to the most mental health problems.
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 50 seconds later[^][v]#194,596
Goes with the old adage: "I eat because I'm depressed and I'm depressed because I eat".
The Pony !.PonyTzEbE joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 31 minutes later, 31 minutes after the original post[^][v]#194,614
> Teenage girls who are obese are less likely to be depressed than girls who are simply overweight
That's because girls who are overweight are clearly still not sure about it and probably want to go slimmer again so they care that people think they're disgusting fat slobs, but obese girls are girls who just simply stopped giving a shit about themselves or the eyes of anybody looking at them and decided to be really disgusting fat slobs, so they don't care that people think they're disgusting fat slobs because it's true.
Anonymous C replied with this 15 years ago, 19 minutes later, 51 minutes after the original post[^][v]#194,627