Table 1.

Relevant opinions regarding being teased as precipitating factors of dieting and slimming practices in AN.

Langdon-Brown (38)	“Anorexia was rationalized by one of three grounds: (1) humanitarian pleas; (2) slimming, especially if there had been teasing because the young woman had been getting somewhat plump; (4) on religious grounds” (p. 308).
Ryle (13)	“Slimming', usually instigated by the ridicule of school friends on account of adolescent plumpness, is generally considered second in importance to these emotional crises. Four cases at least in this group originated in this way” (p. 895).
Ryle (39)	“Of initiating or contributory factors, other than slimming in response to teasing on the score of adolescent plumpness (and this can rarely be accepted as a sole cause), love affairs, broken engagements, school attachments and jealousies, home sickness (especially in the case of girls sent abroad), unhappy home life, spoiling by devoted parents, mental shocks, examinations and overwork, and convalescence from a physical illness or operation are all noteworthy” (p. 26).
Berkman (40)	“of young girls, 13 to 15 years of age, who during the grade school years…they may realize that they are overweight or may be cruelly reminded of this fact by others. As a result they markedly cut down on their food intake” (p. 682).
Selvini Palazzoli (32)	“But to these predisposing generic pathogens we can also add more specific ones: the fashion of being thin and sophisticated, the widespread commercials on diets and drugs to lose weight, the continuous talks on calories and weight loss among family members and friends and, especially, the jokes reserved to women of the type in Rubens's paintings. Nowadays, our cultural environment does not accept the fat woman, doomed to be alone and rejected” [(32), p. 58, translated from the original in Italian].
Farquarson and Hyland (37)	“It is extremely difficult to learn what the most important precipitating factors in anorexia nervosa may be, for one cannot fathom an adolescent's mind. Abhorrence and fear of obesity loom large in the thinking of many patients. In eight of our patients the onset took place when the patient was subjected to teasing about being fat, or was simply overly conscious of obesity. One cannot accept this as the sole factor, however; otherwise anorexia nervosa would be a common and not a rare disease” (p. 419).
Stice et al. (41)	“One striking finding is that low BMI, low dieting, negative affect, and functional impairment predicted onset of AN and a low BMI, whereas the risk factors relating to cultural pressures for thinness and resulting body dissatisfaction and weight control behaviors did not… The fact that thin ideal internalization and body dissatisfaction did not predict AN implies that cultural pressure for thinness do not increase risk for AN” (p. 50).