The remarkable thing is that dieters blame themselves for the failure rather than the diet.
Like me, she has had gallstones, which is a common ailment among constant dieters.
More importantly, in some cases the preoccupation of obsessive dieters with unnatural slimness may be a cause of other physical and psychological illnesses.
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).
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.
This raises the issue of how restraint and mood (both high in dieters) might inter-relate in the way they affect attention.
By contrast, dieters who reported highly restrained eating showed no such correlations.
Selective attention to food and body shape words in dieters and restrained non-dieters.
