High school's acne-splotched, gossip-buzzed cafeterias can get ugly. The scene takes an extra emotional toll on those at the bottom of the food chain. What's worse, the pain of teen popularity contests actually expands girls' waistlines.
A new Harvard University study of 4,500 girls suggests that the lower girls think of themselves on the social scale, the greater their risk for gaining weight.
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