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on't wear that dress - it
makes you look a little
heavy," Diana chides
her 12-year-old daugh-
ter, who is preparing for her first
school dance.
Diana then inspects her own
image in the mirror. "Gosh, no more
chocolate for me. I'm packing on the
pounds."
It may sound like harmless chatter,
but it could have serious conse-
quences, according to nutritionist
Debra Waterhouse, the author of a
new book on eating disorders.
In Like Mother, Like Daughter
(Hyperion, $21.95), Waterhouse
writes that a mother's attitudes about
food and weight often have a major
influence on a girl's eating habits.
When a mother regularly diets and
encourages her daugh-
ter to watch her own
weight, the girl is at
higher risk for anorex-
ia, bulimia or other
forms of disordered
eating, Waterhouse
claims. She also
believes that the
majority of girls today
have an unhealthy
relationship with food.
"We have 9-year-
olds who are staying
home from school
because they think
they look fat," said
Waterhouse. "If they're
worrying about their
thighs in elementary
school, imagine what's
going to happen when
they're 28."
What does happen
is that some girls fanatically restrict
eating (anorexia), or try to control
their weight by bingeing and purging,
(bulimia). Others spend years as "dis-
ordered eaters," constantly weighing
themselves and dieting.
And, they think all of it is normal.
"We have a new generation of
daughters for whom disordered eat-
ing is not only acceptable, it's desir-
able," Waterhouse said. "By age 13,
80 percent of girls are dieting."
Therapists say they are seeing an
ever-increasing number of teen and
pre-teen girls obsessed with being
thin. These youngsters often learn
about dieting from their mothers.
"We're starting to see the daugh-
ters of women we treated in the
1970s," said Trish Stanley, a San
Diego marriage and family counselor
who specializes in eating disorders. "I
don't want to be a mother basher, but
girls today hear their mothers talking
about 'fat and thin,' rather than
about 'healthy, active and fit.' "
This is not to say that fathers are
entirely free from blame. A man who
tells his daughter, 'Don't eat that, it
will make you fat,' sends the wrong
message. Fathers who insist that their
daughters maintain a certain weight
are also at fault.
But, men are far less likely than
women to practice repetitive dieting,
so fathers don't model that behavior
like mothers do.
"Men don't base their self-worth
on how much they weigh,"
Waterhouse said. "They base their
worth on talents and accomplish-
ments."
When they do diet, men are gener-
ally unemotional about it; they don't
consider themselves a failure if their
efforts are unsuccessful, Waterhouse
said.
"Think about it - have you ever
heard a man say, 'I feel so fat
today,?'" she said. "Have you ever
witnessed a man telling all his friends
how much weight he hopes to lose
on his new diet?"
Women are far more concerned
about body image.
The current national obsession
with fat hasn't helped matters,
Stanley said. Nutritional labeling may
actually lead to eating problems.
"Mothers stock their refrigerators