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Dieting among preadolescent and young adolescent females

Gail McVey, Stacey Tweed and Elizabeth Blackmore

From the Community Health Systems Resource Group, Ontario Community Outreach Program for Eating Disorders and Public Health Sciences, University Health Network/Toronto General Hospital, The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto (McVey), Community Health Systems Resource Group, The Hospital for Sick Children (Tweed, Blackmore), Toronto, Ont.

WE EXAMINED THE PREVALENCE OF DIETING and negative eating attitudes among 2279 females (aged 10–14 years) in southern Ontario. Self-report questionnaires revealed that 29.3% of the girls were currently trying to lose weight and 10.5% had scores greater than the clinical threshold for disordered eating (Children's version of the Eating Attitudes Test [ChEAT] score >= 20). Those with elevated ChEAT scores were more likely than those with lower scores to be engaged in dieting and other extreme weight control methods.




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