People suffering from mild depression or anxiety are more likely to use unhealthy weight-loss tactics, such as binge eating and purging or fasting, or to eat an unhealthy diet, US research suggests. Scientists from the University of Washington in Seattle found that men and women who reported being psychologically distressed are more than twice as likely to indulge in unhealthy dieting practices. The research is published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
(Reuters 17/05/02)

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