PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Gail McVey AU - Stacey Tweed AU - Elizabeth Blackmore TI - Dieting among preadolescent and young adolescent females AID - 10.1503/cmaj.1031247 DP - 2004 May 11 TA - Canadian Medical Association Journal PG - 1559--1561 VI - 170 IP - 10 4099 - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/170/10/1559.short 4100 - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/170/10/1559.full SO - CMAJ2004 May 11; 170 AB - 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.