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Magazine Ideals Wrong
Mike Mitka
JAMA. 2001;286:409.
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A study by researchers at Brigham Young University has found a positive statistical correlation between high school girls using certain unhealthy weight-control practices and the frequency of reading women's health and fitness magazines.
The study, published in the May/June issue of the American Journal of Health Education, surveyed 498 sophomore, junior, and senior girls at two unidentified Salt Lake City high schools.
In the survey, about 11% reported that they used laxatives for weight loss or weight control, 15% took appetite control or weight-loss pills, 9% made themselves vomit after meals, and 52% restricted their calories to 1200 a day or fewer at some point. Of the girls with unhealthy weight-control practices, researchers found that 80% of those who vomit, 73% who use appetite suppressants or weight-control pills, 60% who took laxatives, and 60% who restricted their diets to 1200 daily calories were frequent (at least once . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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