The results are in: Teen girls who read magazines with articles about diet and weight loss are considerably more likely to use unhealthy dieting practices (such as purging, abusing laxatives) both as teens and as adults.
Reports WebMD,
The girls who had most often read magazine articles about dieting and weight loss five years earlier were the most likely to report unhealthy or extreme dieting practices in the follow-up survey.
These girls were twice as likely to engage in unhealthy weight-control behaviors — including fasting, skipping meals, and smoking more cigarettes — as girls who never read such articles.
Extreme weight-control behaviors — including …read more