“…That abnormal eating attitudes are highly prevalent among suburban females is in keeping with several other studies published in the pediatric and adolescent medicine literature showing that large numbers of adolescents are unhappy with their weight and involved in chronic dieting (Moore, 1988;Moses, Banilivy, & Lifshitz, 1989;Maloney, McGuire, Daniels, & Specker, 1989;Casper & Offer, 1990;Story et al, 1991;Paxton et al, 1991;Koff & Rierdan, 1991). That these abnormal attitudes are less prevalent among urban adolescents adds to the findings of previous studies that have shown fewer abnormalities in eating attitudes and behaviors among black female college students compared with their white counterparts (Gray, Ford, & Kelly, 1987;Abrams, Allen, & Gray, 1992). However, the finding that 15% of minority high school females achieved a high score on the EAT, compared with 17.5% of suburban females, implies that concerns with weight and dieting may be increasing in the black and Hispanic adolescent populations.…”