Morning Edition: Weight-Based Bullying
New study finds weight is a main reason students are teased.
By WNPR Staff
Published: Nov 18, 2011
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Morning Edition: Weight-Based Bullying
Being overweight is the biggest reason why teens are bullied at school. That's according to a survey of Connecticut adolescents. Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity Published the report online in the Journal of School Health. Joining us by phone is the lead author of the report, and director of research at the Yale Rudd Center Rebecca Puhl.




