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School-based overweight prevention program may cut risk of eating disorders among girls
09-03-2007 · EurekAlert!Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health set out to determine if an obesity prevention program called 5-2-1-Go! could reduce the risk of eating disorder symptoms and harmful weight-control behaviors in adolescents. The study showed that almost 4 percent of middle-school girls receiving only their regular health education began vomiting or abusing laxatives or diet pills, but just 1 percent of the girls in the 5-2-1-Go! program did so.
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