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Pediatric Obesity
Study shows promoting self-weighing in teens is not helpful to weight management
December 30th, 2006
Teenage girls who weigh themselves frequently are more likely to binge eat and participate in unhealthy weight control behaviors in the future, according to new research from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. A study published in a recent issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health found frequent self-weighing in teenage females did not help with better weight management and predicted increased rates of binge eating and other unhealthy weight control behaviors, such as skipping meals, smoking, taking diet pills, using laxatives, and vomiting. "As a society, so much attention is given to weight and staying within a specific...
Source: Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week (2006-12-30)
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