The results of the new study showed that girls who are addicted to the depletion of their body with the help of various diets, the desire to start smoking occurs twice as often as in young women with a normal diet, the website Health of Ukraine.

According to Dr. Mildred Maldonado-Molina of the College of Medicine, University of Florida, USA, the goal of the study was to find the relationship between diet and smoking, which was supposed to be much more pronounced in women than in men.

The study was based on previously obtained results that the weight of a person almost always pushes unsure of teenagers to smoke a first cigarette. Therefore, one of the reasons why people start smoking or can not get rid of this habit is the effect of cigarettes on controlling the weight of a person.

As a result of the study it was found that adolescent girls who were addicted to diets during the period of schooling were 1.

94 times more likely to start smoking than those who did not feel the tangential discomfort of their weight. In addition, it was found that young women are more likely to use a variety of diets than men.

Claire Mullins, a member of the American Lung Association, explains the nature of this relationship as follows: since nicotine accelerates the metabolism, it is a potential "weapon" in the fight against excess weight, which mistakenly attracts the attention of many Teenagers.

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