It's a question that no parent or friend wants to answer in the affirmative, but it turns out that, with normal-weight teens, this reluctance may make sense: A new Norwegian study shows that those who think they're too heavy are the ones most likely to be overweight by early adulthood.
In what is described as the first study to capture the relationship between perceived and actual weight over a period of several years, researchers said they found that a negative self-image may play a key role in driving teens toward obesity.
