That if the researchers had been as concerned about overeating as binge eating and excessive dieting when they conducted this study, it would have come out much differently. The entire article is written to scare parents into bullying vegetarian children into eating meat, even though the study also showed that most meat-eaters do, in fact, have a less healthy diet.
Update: Thinking about it a little more, I'm reacting more to the article, which collapses the distinction between a healthy realization that it's way easy to overeat in our capitalist society and having a bona fide eating disorder. Learning to resist the immense pressure to eat more than is healthy is a basic skill that teenagers should be developing before their metabolisms slow down, not when they gain weight, which is always harder to take off than it was to avoid putting it on in the first place.
