The fat police will continue to tell us their crusade is about improving health, but the obsession with weight can be seriously unhealthy for young women. A new study suggests that reading habits may affect eating habits for some girls.
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.
Full study in the journal Pediatrics.
