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About 10% of 13-year-old girls are "terrified" about putting on weight, the first UK study looking for warning signs of eating disorders suggests.
Doctors said they were "worried" by the high degree of weight fixation found in 13-year-old girls, years before eating disorders typically start.
Researchers say it might be possible to stop full eating disorders developing.
Their findings, in the Journal of Adolescent Health, came from interviews with the parents of 7,082 13-year-olds.
Eating disorders, such as anorexia, tend to start in the mid-teenage years, although they can begin before then.
The study, by University College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, looked at the years before those disorders tend to start.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25403304
Doctors said they were "worried" by the high degree of weight fixation found in 13-year-old girls, years before eating disorders typically start.
Researchers say it might be possible to stop full eating disorders developing.
Their findings, in the Journal of Adolescent Health, came from interviews with the parents of 7,082 13-year-olds.
Eating disorders, such as anorexia, tend to start in the mid-teenage years, although they can begin before then.
The study, by University College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, looked at the years before those disorders tend to start.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25403304