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The purpose of this study was to examine the somatotype awareness and diet behavior of high school girls in our country, their post-diet BMI and relevant health status(menstruation and digestive health), and the relationship between their way of diet and physical health status (menstruation and digestive health) in an effort to provide some information on how to provide beauty and health education for high school girls to go on a diet more efficiently and build the right values about somatotype and diet.As to desired BMI, the majority viewed underweight as the best. Although 87.2 percent had a normal BMI or were underweight, as many as 41.9 percent found themselves as overweight. The state of the diet behavior of the high school girls was analyzed, and they got a mean of 3.69 out of five points, which indicated that the high school girls had a lot of interest in diet. 84.0 percent ever attempted to go on a diet, and most of them acquired the most diet information on the Internet. The most common way for them to go on a diet was by regulating the amount of a meal or a menu(21.1%). The physical health(menstruation and digestive health) of the high school girls was checked in consideration of their diet experience. And it's found that the high school girls who ever went on a diet suffered more menstrual pain and more digestive disorder than those who didn't. As a result of investigating the relationship of their BMI to post-diet menstruation and digestive health, the underweight high school girls had more irregular menstruation than the other weight groups, and the former suffered more menstrual pain and more digestive disorder.Given the findings of the study, high school girls should be taught both at home and at school to take the right view of weight and figure. They should learn that optimum weight is conducive to both beauty and health, and they also should learn about the effect and necessity of proper workout. The fact that extreme diet is detrimental to the health of girls who will become mothers in the future should be informed, and the development and publicity of systematic diet programs geared toward high school girls are required.

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