Published on Wednesday, November 11, 2009
By Daily Breeze Staff Writer
Some Los Angeles teenagers have had enough of the growing obesity rate among America's youth.
So they've taken action - with the launch of WereFedUp.com , a Web site operated by teens for teens to combat the unhealthy trend.
"It's definitely different to hear why being healthy's important from someone that's closer to your age ... than, say, somebody who's older," said Britanni Dihgero, a freshman at Santa Monica College who began working with the WereFedUp.com team as a senior at The Accelerated School in South Los Angeles.
"When you hear from someone young it's like, `Oh, well, they must really know because ... they're young and not a lot of young people know this kind of stuff, so if it's coming from them, it must have some truth to it,"' she said.
WereFedUp.com is set up as a social networking platform, similar to MySpace and Facebook
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