It may be that girls with eating problems who experience poor social relations and hence have fewer social supports are those girls who become depressed. (cyc-net.org)
In contrast, if girls had single episodes of eating problems fairly early in adolescence (age 14), they were not likely to experience them again as young women. (cyc-net.org)
Even as young adults, women who had recurrent eating problems in adolescence continued to have higher percentages of body fat as young adults. (cyc-net.org)