Crazy diets of teenage girls

[AB Asks]

Teenage girls often skip lunch and breakfast in a bid to be super-slim. The survey of 70,000 school children has shown that many young people are risking their health to be thin. What do you think? Do young people need more education on how to be healthy or will they continue to starve themselves until they stop seeing skinny women in the press and on television?

[4getmenot]

if you compared this to overweight kids nowadays I honestly think there are more of them than skinny kids. I get great pleasure of fitting into kiddies age 15 clothes but then realise its just because they are so fat nowadays

[Goodsoulette]

We were ding this when I was a teenager, breakfast was another one to go and a can of one cal, a stick
of chewing gum and a fag at lunchtime. Its no bloody different now then it was then except on the whole the public have got lardier and te celebs have stayed skinnier, so they have made clothes bigger, hence size zero!

[saxy_jag]

Thank you, Goodsoulette, you're absolutely right. We were just the same in the 1970s (well, not me personally, I like my grub too much). I wonder how much it's cost to have that survey carried out?

Bit like the news this morning that 'research' shows our inner cities are becoming no-go areas at night due the numbers of drunken teenagers around the places. Well, get away! I'd never have guessed.

[leelapops]

Is it really just "teens"? A lot of grown women who should DEFINITELY know better are doing this. But isn't skipping breakfast a futile way to lose weight anyway? I thought the body used its own stores after a while to keep you going, so by skipping breakfast you're just confusing your body.

[leelapops]

And I am far less concerned about going into the town centre when it's occupied by drunken teens as when it's occupied by grown men and women who are entirely w*****ed. Although we seem to blame all our problems on young people, it scares me more that adults have no awareness of their behaviour.

[4getmenot]

yer and I bet there were less fat kids in the 70's

[leelapops]

Because there was more to DO in the 70s! Probably-I wasn't born 'til 1986! I now realise why I was never allowed a TV in my room, though, and why we didn't have games consoles and PCs.

[cazzz1975]

well my kids are all strips!, they all eat like horses and my daughter plays out every day, my boys are always on the go. I think it doesnt matter how much they eat as long as they get active.

my daughter has a healthy attitude to food and loves her veggies (as well a chocolate!)

[sexyrussiann]

From the ages of 15 until 17 I never ate breakfast or lunch until my gf who's a doctor(and you know what else miss AB editor) told me it can make you fatter because your body tells itself you're starving and stores your fat!