Have a Healthy Approach to Eating

The womenshealth.gov website says these factors can trigger an unhealthy attitude toward food among girls:

• Seeing that their mothers are very concerned with their weight.
• Having a mother who worries too much about her daughter's appearance and weight.
• Gaining weight naturally during puberty.
• Being influenced by peer pressure about appearance and weight.
• Having issues with self-esteem.
• Seeing examples of the "ideal" very thin body among images in the media.