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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/weighty-matters-diet-pill-use-soars-among-teenage-girls/">Weighty matters: diet pill use soars among teenage girls</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted June 27, 2007 at 10:30 AM by Bridget Sullivan</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">It’s no secret that we live in a body-obsessed, Barbie-worshiping, diet crazed society.&nbsp; Every time you flip on the TV, you see an ad for a new diet product boasting “cutting edge” research; every time you browse the magazine aisle, you see perfectly proportioned, statuesque goddesses gracing the covers (never mind that they are completely air-brushed); every time you go to the grocery store, you see rows of “fat free,” “diet,” and “low fat” foods staring back at you, reminding you that you must lose 10 pounds.&nbsp; I once heard an insightful remark from a body image expert; she highlighted the fact that the first three letters in the word “diet” spell D-I-E.&nbsp; And then she asserted that perpetual “diets” lead to a perpetual cycle where the question doesn’t become, “how many pounds have you lost?” (and then ultimately recycled), but…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/weighty-matters-diet-pill-use-soars-among-teenage-girls/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/weighty-matters-diet-pill-use-soars-among-teenage-girls/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/weighty-matters-diet-pill-use-soars-among-teenage-girls/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/weighty-matters-diet-pill-use-soars-among-teenage-girls/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/body-image/">body-image</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/eating-disorders/">eating-disorders</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-nutrition/">her-nutrition</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-news/">her-news</a><br /><br /> </P>