Welcome  to  Public  Health  moment from  the  University  of  Minnesota. Overweight  youth  with  certain  socio,  environmental, psychological  and  behavioral  tendencies are  more  likely  to  suffer  from  eating  disorders. These  tendencies  include  reading magazine  articles  about  dieting, reporting  a  lack  of  family  connectedness, and  placing  a  high  importance  on  weight. That's  according  to  research led  by  Diane  Newmark  Steiner, a  University  of  Minnesota  Professor  of  epidemiology. We  found  that  40%  of  overweight  adolescent  girls  and 20%  of  adolescent  boys engage  in  harmful  disordered  eating  behaviors, including  binge  eating,  with the  feeling  of  loss  of  control, and  extreme  weight  control  behaviors  such as  self  induced  vomiting  and  use  of  diet  pills, laxatives,  and  diuretics  for  weight  control  purposes. Newmark  Steiner  offers  advice. There  is  a  lot  of  emphasis now  on  the  prevention  of  obesity. Our  findings  suggest  that  all  interventions, whether  at  the  family  level,  the  school  level, or  the  community  level, do  not  only  address  obesity, but  also  address  the  use  of disordered  eating  behaviors  among  overweight  adolescents. With  another  public  health  moment,  I'm  John  Finnegan.