For International No Diet Day on May 6, put your scales away and start a new relationship with the person you see in the mirror. Unrealistic body expectations and pressure have led to eating disorders, low self-esteem, bullying, and unhealthily restricted diets for a large number of people, particularly women.
The phrase "Ditch that Diet" was coined in 1992 by British feminist Mary Evans Young when she had had enough of it all. Wear a light blue ribbon today and enjoy a cheeseburger with pride because the global movement it started has assisted many people in developing a healthier relationship with food and their bodies.
The History Of The World No Diet Day: Dieticians and dieting became popular in the 18th century after obese English doctor George Cheyne lost a significant amount of weight by consuming just vegetables and milk and fully avoiding meat. He subsequently authored an essay titled "An Essay of Health and Long Life" in which he advocated his diet to anyone who was obese. The first diets emerged as a result of this essay's advice to shun "luxury foods" and breathe fresh air.
People have persisted in using particular eating practises to improve their health or alter their bodies to meet a particular societal ideal. In 1863, William Banting, an English undertaker, invented the "Banting" diet, which quickly became popular. It is regarded as a prototype for well-liked diets, and copies of it were still being made in 2007. It included four meals a day of meat, vegetables, fruit, and dry wine.
Lulu Hunt Peters, an American journalist and physician, wrote "Diet and Health: With Key to the Calories," the first bestseller on weight loss, in 1918. It encouraged calorie counting, which is still widely used today. Since then, more than 1000 different weight-loss regimens have emerged, although the majority emphasise ingesting few calories, fat, carbohydrates, or sugars.
Diet culture grew rapidly. Marketers pushed body standards and goals that were challenging for many individuals to achieve with the rising availability of media, including television, advertisements, and the internet. Many times, photo manipulation and plastic surgery made these figures physically impossible to achieve naturally, but many still felt the pressure to be thin and turned to diets.
In 1992, English feminist Mary Evans Young had had enough of her long battles with anorexia, bullying, and body image problems. Although she had planned for her first No Diet Day to be observed only in the UK, she was motivated to see it take off elsewhere. Only a small group of women in the UK observed the holiday in 1992, with a picnic and "Ditch That Diet" stickers. In 1993, because women in many nations wanted to celebrate, the holiday's date was altered to May 6 in order to avoid competing with Cinco de Mayo celebrations.
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