{{B}}Losing
Weight{{/B}} Girls as young as 10 years old are dieting and in
danger of developing unhealthy attitudes about weight, body image and food, a
group of Toronto researchers reported Tuesday. Their study of
2,279 girls aged 10 to 14 showed that while the vast majority had healthy
weights, nearly a third felt they were overweight and were trying to lose
pounds. Even at the tender ages of 10, nearly 32 per cent of girls felt "too
fat" and 31 per cent said they were trying to diet. McVey, a
researcher at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and her colleagues
analyzed dam collected in a number of surveys of southern Ontario school girls
between 1993 and 2003, reporting their findings in Tuesday’s issue of the
Canadian Medical Association A. were overweight B. were on a diet C. had unhealthy attitudes about weight D. had a healthy body weight
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