Dr. Susan’s Girls-Only Weight Loss Guide
Is it time for you to lose weight? Did You Know…
- Thirty-percent of teenage girls are overweight
- Being overweight can cause serious medical problems like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and type-two diabetes
- Being overweight can be really difficult socially. Girls are teased because they are overweight. They might feel unattractive and left out because they can’t wear the same clothes as their friends or because they feel that people judge them by their weight.
- Being overweight can be tough emotionally. Girls may feel lonely, sad and even depressed, wishing they looked and felt healthier.
- Being overweight is often very stressful for families. In particular, mothers and daughters frequently argue and fight about eating, weight and exercise.
- Peer pressures, media pressures can make it really confusing to know what’s healthy and what’s not.
Since being overweight is so painful and difficult, it is really important to figure out whether you, or your daughter, needs to lose weight. To help you figure it out, click through to the quiz that is right for you. If you are a tween or teen girl, click on the Girls’ Quiz and if you are a parent or other adult, click through on the Parents’ Quiz. Answer the questions honestly and when you finish Dr. Susan will let you know whether Dr. Susan’s Girls-Only Weight Loss Guide can help you, or your daughter, to feel healthier and more confident about your body.
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