Dieting young may lead to poor health outcomes later: Trends in dieting strategies in young adult women from 1982 to 2012
The younger a woman was when she started her first diet, the more likely she was to use extreme weight control behaviors like self-induced vomiting, misuse alcohol, and be overweight or obese when she reached her 30's.Yes, well that's because this is the time when we young women were told to lose weight by eating low fat food. Which causes hyperinsulinemia, hypoglycemia and eating disorders. And the younger you start, the sicker you get. Cause and Effect.
It's not about dieting, it's about erroneous dieting advice.
Stop studying "Ingestive Behavior" and start studying metabolism please.