Reading magazine articles about dieting and associated weight control behaviors among adolescents
Accepted 30 May 2002.
Abstract
Abstract
The purpose was to examine the sociodemographic characteristics of adolescents who read magazine articles about dieting/weight loss and the relationship between reading these types of magazine articles and psychosocial well-being and weight control behaviors. Dieting-related magazine exposure was associated with indicators of psychosocial distress and unhealthy dieting; interventions that address media consumption should reach out to all youth regardless of ethnic and social backgrounds
aDivision of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Address correspondence to: Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, Ph.D., Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis MN 55454, USA.
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