Dieting

Assalamualaikum…

This is the most interesting reading that I have read… It is very informational and fun to read…

Dieting as in the book discusses about how people tend to be obsess with their weight rather than their health. According to the article, people who gain weight or fat tend to fill ugly, unhealthy and ashamed. They tend to think that if they slim down, they will live longer because lighter people live longer than heavy people.

Our culture is obsessed with thinness. People tend to spend thousand and thousand of their money on weight loss program or weight loss stuff. Plus, with the influence of media, no wonder people become more and more obsess with getting thin. From the article itself, it stated that picture of ‘skinny’ model actually have made a contribution to women’s obsession towards dieting. Some also tend to take the fast lane to get rid of fat by taking pills and later face with side effect that can cause them their life. Starving is also one of the ways that is a trend to the society nowadays. They rather eat vitamin or just carrot than real food just so that they can be accept by the society. Gray hair has always been a problem for some people. It is a sign of aging and that sometime annoys them. By this, they tend to colour their hair to cover up mother’s nature. But the truth is, the more you colour your hair, the greater risk you will die by heart attack or any heart disease. In the reading, it also stated some tips for those who want to start a healthy diet.

From my understanding, there are two ways of dieting: healthy and unhealthy diet. Although majority of people nowadays are practicing an unhealthy diet after knowing the consequences, still they keep on practice it. Why does this happen? It is all because of the media and the society whether we like it or not. As skinny is the new trend now, people are obsess with it. Once I’ve read through a magazine and the cover page was Keira Nightly. There was a phrase that that stated, “Keira made the lamp post look fat” and I was like, woooo!!! Even a lamp post is fat… This shows how people are really into this unhealthy diet. I’m not saying that all the people are into this but almost all teenagers nowadays are like that.

Can I say that we Malaysian have low self esteem when it comes to their weight? Actually we should think positively here. Not saying that dieting is bad. Certain people diet because of their health. Some people need to watch what their eating so that it will not affect their health in order to stay in a good condition. Easy said here that it depends on the individual themselves to practice what types of diet they want. Just make sure that they don’t hurt themselves that can lead to negative consequences.

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