The size-zero obsession could be forcing women into extreme diets followed by periods of bingeing on junk food, an expert said yesterday. Janet Treasure, of the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London, said animal studies showed that starvation followed by bingeing on highly palatable foods, such as burgers or chocolate, could alter the way that the brain responds to food.
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