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Fast food & teens.


Adolescent ad·o·les·cent
adj.
Of, relating to, or undergoing adolescence.

n.
A young person who has undergone puberty but who has not reached full maturity; a teenager.
 girls who eat fast food frequently may put on pounds they don't want or need.

Researchers at the University of Washington asked 101 healthy girls aged 8 to 12 to keep one-week diet records when they started the study and again when they were 11 to 19 years old. Girls who reported eating fast food at least twice a week gained more weight than girls who ate fast food once a week or not at all.

What to do: Most fast food is calorie calorie, abbr. cal, unit of heat energy in the metric system. The measurement of heat is called calorimetry. The calorie, or gram calorie, is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of pure water 1°C;.  dense, but anyone can minimize the damage by replacing the fries, burgers Burgers are hamburgers.

Burgers may also refer to:
  • Johannes Martinus Burgers, Dutch physicist, namesake of Burgers' equation and brother of W. G. Burgers
  • W. G. Burgers, Dutch crystallographer and brother of J. M.
, and shakes with salads, a fruit-and-yogurt parfait, or grilled grill  
tr.v. grilled, grill·ing, grills
1. To broil on a gridiron.

2. To torture or afflict as if by broiling.

3. Informal To question relentlessly; cross-examine.

4.
 chicken.

Int. J. Obes. Relat. Metab. Disord. 28: 282, 2004.
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Title Annotation:Quick Studies
Publication:Nutrition Action Healthletter
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jun 1, 2004
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