Why Are All Media Stories So Extreme? Diet Industry? Posted: 10-19-05 17:17pm
My mother-in-law knows that I have
anorexia. She saved an article in a
women's magazine for me about a middle
aged women's struggle with anorexia. The
article really didn't give much
information. The woman in question only
ate lettuce at dinnertime, never anything
else. Other anorexia stories have
someone who fasts for several days or like
her only eats one or a couple low fat
foods once a day. Unfortunately, you
don't have to be that bad continuously to
have anorexia.
In the same issue, there was a lose weight
quick diet of 1400 calories that gave 5
meal ideas for each meal. By following
the plan, you could expect to lose around
8 pounds per month.
Does anyone see a problem here?
This article is telling you how you can
become anorexic. If you are highly
active, just doing this diet and sticking
with it will probably cause you to become
anorexic. Even if you aren't as active
or have a lower metabolism, you can easily
modify it by leaving out foods that you
don't really like or feel like eating thus
allowing you to continue to lose weight
even after you are underweight.
There are long term anorexics out there
that don't realize that they have a
problem because they aren't eating much
worse (or healthy in their view) than
people on "healthy diets". They aren't
really starving themselves like those real
anorexics who go days without eating or
only eating lettuce at dinnertime.
This just bothers me.
