Article: More teen girls turning to diet pills

Increasing numbers of teenage girls look to diet pills to lose weight, a new study has found.

Conducted at the University of Minnesota and published last week in the journal Preventive Medicine, the study found that the use of diet pills almost doubled in a group of 2,500 female adolescents tracked for five years - overall rates of pill use rising from 7.5 percent to 14 percent.

By the time girls reached ages 19 to 20, nearly 20 percent reported using diet pills to lose weight.

Teens were tracked in two groups, about half from seventh grade onward, the rest from when they were high school juniors or seniors. Each group increased their use of diet pills over time; the younger ...

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