In the USA, one of every three dieters misses pizza more than any other food.
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As predicted, dieters reported themselves to be significantly more preoccupied with thoughts of food and eating.
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Thus, while the older dieters avoided the relational conflicts experienced by younger respondents, they did so at the cost of extra household duties.
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For the former, they reinforced the company's rhetoric about weight loss as a simple matter of ' reasoned eating ' that lies fully under the dieter's control.
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It is possible that these recruitment procedures biased the sample, producing a more highly motivated group than would be typical of the averagedieter.
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For example, the older dieters tended to discount the potential embarrassment of an unsuccessful weigh-in by emphasising the shared experience of disappointment.
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Such exchanges served important functions for both the organisation and the individual dieters.
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Although dieters were significantly impaired in mood and well-being, these variables were associated with tendencies to eat when emotional, and not with restrained eating.
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Selective attention to food and body shape words in dieters and restrained non-dieters.
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By contrast, dieters who reported highly restrained eating showed no such correlations.
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This raises the issue of how restraint and mood (both high in dieters) might inter-relate in the way they affect attention.
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Although such dieters may be in the majority, confounding two variables that contribute to such lack of success limits our ability to examine why such failure occurs.
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However, much previous research has been confined to student dieters who are typically normal weight (and therefore more likely to be attempting to diet for ' non-health ' reasons).
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More importantly, in some cases the preoccupation of obsessive dieters with unnatural slimness may be a cause of other physical and psychological illnesses.
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Like me, she has had gallstones, which is a common ailment among constant dieters.
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The remarkable thing is that dieters blame themselves for the failure rather than the diet.
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