Sunday, 16 May 2010

Vegetarians are nearly twice as likely to diet frequently as nonvegetarians, four times as likely to engage in intentional vomiting and eight times as likely to use laxatives for weight control

Published in the Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1997;151:833-838

Adolescent Vegetarians A Behavioral Profile of a School-Based Population in Minnesota
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, PhD, MPH, RD; Mary Story, PhD, RD; Michael D. Resnick, PhD; Robert W. Blum, MD, PhD

This study can be accessed at: http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/151/8/833.pdf

The vegetarians in the study were nearly twice as likely to diet frequently as nonvegetarians, four times as likely to engage in intentional vomiting and eight times as likely to use laxatives for weight control.

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