Adolescent dieting: healthy weight control or borderline eating disorder

Dieting levels among adolescents were systematically assessed to determine if the practice is a healthy weight control measure or is just a borderline eating disorder. It was discovered that body mass carried a strong influence in intermediate dieting. Meanwhile, psychiatric morbidity is said to be the clearest factor associated with extreme dieting. Dieting methods were also evaluated to be inappropriate and promote widespread striving of teenage girls to achieve body shapes inappropriate for their ages.