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Teens who go on diets to drop some pounds are more likely to skip breakfast and binge eat -- which may at least partly explain why they put on more weight over time than their peers who don't diet, a new study shows. The researchers set out to uncover the reasons why dieting by adolescents has been shown in previous studies to predict later weight

Teens who go on diets to drop some pounds are more likely to skip breakfast and binge eat -- which may at least partly explain why they put on more weight over time than their peers who don't diet, a new study shows.

A study released by the University of Minnesota's " Project Eat" (eating among teens) shows starting results of 2,500 female teenagers studied over a five-year period. The study found that high school-aged females' use of diet pills nearly doubled to 14.2%from 7.5%. By the ages of 19 and 20, 20% of females surveyed used diet pills.