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Dieting Leads Girls To Start Smoking.
2001 MAR 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Teen girls who diet up to once a week are twice as likely to become smokers, compared to girls who do not diet, said researchers from the Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health, both in Massachusetts.
Adolescent females who diet more often are four times more likely to start smoking. S. Bryn Austin and colleagues suggest that dieting may cause psychological distress and exacerbate weight concerns, which lead to an escalation of weight-control methods such as smoking.
Almost 1,300 middle-school girls and boys in the ...
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