Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Gee. You don't say.

Gleaned from Canada.com from AP:

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Teen girls who frequently weighed themselves were more likely than others to resort to unhealthy dieting measures...a study of Minnesota students found.

"The act of getting on the scale, weighing yourself every day, can lead to an unhealthy weight preoccupation," said lead researcher Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, a professor at the university's School of Public Health. "And teenage girls who are concerned about their weight are at great risk for unhealthy weight control behaviours."

Neumark-Sztainer said the results probably reflect the girls' underlying concern with weight, but even when they adjusted the results for body satisfaction, they still showed a link between frequent weighing and bad eating behaviour.

Okay, now, I'm not an intelligent girl, but isn't that kind of an obvious chicken/egg conclusion about body image issues?

All I can think is, I wanna be the guy who asks for the grant to do this study. By the way, is there a cure for cancer yet?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The results of this study is undeniable: Bathroom scales cause eating disorders!

We should ban bathroom scales, and surely the problem of eating-disorders should resolve itself.