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As Washington students are enjoying the summer, a break from the long school year... We're digging into what happened in and out of their classrooms from the findings of Washington's most recent Healthy Youth Survey.

We're focusing on the topic of dangerous weight control behavior.

Released in April this year, the biennial survey asked questions to nearly 215,000 students between 6th and 12th grade to assess their overall well-being.

One of those questions... during the past year, did you exercise to lose weight or to keep from gaining weight?

In King County when analyzing 10th graders, about 58% of girls said they controlled their weight through exercise, compared to just 49% of boys.

By race, Hispanic 10th graders, nearly 67% said they control their weight through exercise, whereas nearly 47% of white teens said they did the same.

On other questions, 25% of 10th grade girls said they use fasting to control weight, compared with 17% of boys.

Also, more girls said they use diet to control their weight versus boys.

King County 10th graders were asked, how often do family, friends and peers do or say things about your body or the food that you eat that make you feel bad?

71% of students who identified as transgender that they were made to feel bad.

Meantime, 57% of those who identified as females said they experienced that, compared with only just 38% who identified as male.

Next time, we'll share more of the findings from Washington's Healthy Youth Survey.

I'm Paris Jackson.

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