Women in the USA

I came across those statistics: In the USA (2002), 42% of girls in Grades 1-3 want to be thinner; 81% of 10-year-old girls are afraid of being fat; the average US model is thinner than 98% of all US women; 80% of 13-year-olds have attempted to lose weight. (From Joni Seager, The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World, (Fourth Edition, Penguin).