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From: telepay on 21 Apr 2008 09:04
Because of our society's obsession with thinness, losing weight is a
primary concern for many individuals, particularly women. Sometimes
it's an obsession that goes too far. Many women with perfectly normal
body weight consider themselves overweight, and this applies to young
girls as well. It's very sad to see girls as young as eleven or twelve
anxiously watching their weight. Over time, for many of us, it's just
too much pressure.

Geneen Roth, an author who has written many books about self-
regulated eating, says "for every diet there is an equal and opposite
binge". That is, over time dieting and obsessing about your weight can
actually create a weight problem. Nobody can deal with the pressure of
deprivation forever - sooner or later, something's got to give. When
it does, the result may be that you lose control of your eating - or,
as the tragic stories of many anorexic girls will attest to, you lose
control of your dieting. Geneen Roth isn't alone in this way of
thinking, either. Many experts are coming to believe that dieting just
doesn't work.

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