Obesity, alcohol, depression interlinked for women

Now why would fat women be depressed and turn to drink?

"Alcohol abuse, obesity and depression seem to go hand in hand for many women, according to the first study to look at how the three relate to one another over time in young adults.

Dr. Carolyn A. McCarty of Seattle Children's Research Institute and her colleagues also found that almost half of the men and women in their study suffered from at least one of these problems between the ages of 21 and 30.

'That's big,' McCarty told Reuters Health, and is likely only 'the tip of the iceberg,' because she and her colleagues used fairly stringent definitions of alcohol abuse, depression and obesity in their study."

"Big, it is."