CASE STUDY ANALYSIS   Betty is a very pretty girl. She has a beautiful face and beautiful hair.  She is not very happy with her body size.  She weighs about fifteen pounds more than her friends.  Betty says, “My friends are so much prettier than I am. I am so fat.  I wish I could be as skinny as they are.”  She also says, “It’s not fair that you guys are so skinny and I am fat.”   When Betty comes home from school she is starved to death.  She is a picky eater.  She doesn’t like the things they serve at lunch, so she spends her lunch money in the candy and Coke machine at school.  When she gets home from school, she makes herself an extra-large milkshake because she is so hungry.   What choices does Betty have about weighing more than she wants?  Are there different choices that she could make about her diet to enable her to be the way she wants to be?

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Betty is a very pretty girl. She has a beautiful face and beautiful hair.  She is not very happy with her body size.  She weighs about fifteen pounds more than her friends.  Betty says, “My friends are so much prettier than I am. I am so fat.  I wish I could be as skinny as they are.”  She also says, “It’s not fair that you guys are so skinny and I am fat.”

 

When Betty comes home from school she is starved to death.  She is a picky eater.  She doesn’t like the things they serve at lunch, so she spends her lunch money in the candy and Coke machine at school.  When she gets home from school, she makes herself an extra-large milkshake because she is so hungry.

 

What choices does Betty have about weighing more than she wants?  Are there different choices that she could make about her diet to enable her to be the way she wants to be?

 

 

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