Heavily overweight teenager No. depressed more than slender peers (HealthDay)

stark overweight teenager should not exceed their peers normal weight are printed new research suggests.

"People assume that all obese young people are unhappy and depressed;" "that which more obese a teen, the greater the impact on his or her mental health, may be", said study author Dr. Elizabeth Goodman, Director of the Center for child and adolescent health policy of Massachusetts General Hospital hospital for children, in a press release. "Our findings suggest that this assumption is wrong."

White young people may face but a bit of a higher risk, according to the study.

Researchers followed 51 teenager in class strongly overweight 7-12 and compared them to a similar group of not overweight teenager. The obese young people had a body index of 40 or above, which is considered heavily obese and in the top mass 1 percent for their age group.

Teens were evaluated for depression at the beginning of the study and two and three years later.

The researchers found no link between obesity and depression, although it evidence of a connection in white youth in the year of three.

"As a clinician, we treat the whole person-body, and mind - and we can not assume that weight loss of all of our patients improved mental health, or that negative feelings run hand in hand with obesity," Goodman said. "Body size seems to have a greater effect on feelings of non-Hispanic white teens as non-Hispanic black teenagers." "We should be especially vigilant on evaluation for depression during regular visits under this group."

The study was published before recently online journal of adolescent health.

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For more information about childhood obesity, visit the U.S. National Library of medicine.

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