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[drfunz]

I am not sure what colleges the authors of this study looked at, but if they came to my campus they would see exactly the opposite: students, mostly female,  starving themselves, exercising too much and seeing who can eat the least in a day. Thinness is the epidemic - glazed eyes due to low blood sugar, gaunt, dehydrated Kate Moss wanna-bes in oversized hoodies and sweatpants, glaring back from eyes hidden deep into their emaciated sockets.

Whenever news like this comes out it encourages these students into even more absurd disordered behavior. The freshmen 15 must be at some places since it is discussed often, but my experience at two liberal arts colleges on the East Coast populated by middle to upper class caucasians is that the Freshmen 15 means that normal healthy young women arrive on campus and by the end of freshmen year they are 15 pounds LIGHTER!