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Women are particularly vulnerable to the diet-based lifestyle. Girls tend to learn from an early age that their worth can be measured on a set of bathroom scales, and it sets the pattern for a lifetime of dissatisfaction with how they look. A study carried out by the University of London in September 2003 involving nearly 3,000 youngsters from 28 schools, found that almost half of the girls aged 11 to 14 were trying to lose weight. Most modelled themselves on Victoria Beckham and admitted to skipping meals in their efforts to adhere to the latest manifestation of a world gone mad, where women are supposed to look like pre-pubescent boys with big tits. By the time these girls become young adults, they will have internalized the belief that there is something wrong with them for being their natural size or slightly bigger. They think it is their fault and collude with the culture that tells them they should be thin to be worthwhile.