Creating Unhealthy Teen Body Images
Posted on January 2nd, 2007 by garyPosted in Diet, News
With celebrities like Nicole Ritchie, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and others whom young girls today admire is any wonder teen girls are on the verge of a health crisis? These unhealthy and dangerously skinny bodies set unrealistic goals that children can never live up to.
For example a recent article showed how these diet obsessed teens were doing more harm to themselves trying to learn how to lose weight.
Reading diet articles could be unhealthy – Yahoo! News
Teenage girls who frequently read magazine articles about dieting were more likely five years later to practice extreme weight-loss measures such as vomiting than girls who never read such articles, the University of Minnesota study found. It didn’t seem to matter whether the girls were overweight when they started reading about weight loss, nor whether they considered their weight important. After taking those factors into account, researchers still found reading articles about dieting predicted later unhealthy weight loss behavior. Girls in middle school who read dieting articles were twice as likely five years later to try to lose weight by fasting or smoking cigarettes, compared to girls who never read such articles. They were three times more likely to use measures such as vomiting or taking laxatives, the study found.
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