Keeping a close eye on your weight doesn’t always mean leading a healthier lifestyle.
Keeping a close eye on your weight doesn’t always mean leading a healthier lifestyle. A group of researchers from the University of Minnesota (USA), led by Dr. Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, based on five-year observations of 2516 schoolchildren, found that teenage girls, who were often weighed at the beginning of the study (about 10%), in the next five years gained almost twice as much weight as their carefree peers in this regard (15 kg and 8,4 kg, respectively).
Approximately 92% of weight-conscious girls are on strict and sometimes unhealthy diets. Professor Newmark-Zteiner believes that a person’s dependence on social stereotypes (such as conventional beauty standards) can impair the ability to listen to one’s body and prevent the development of healthy self-regulation in food.