Controversy On Diets

In today’s society, an ongoing trend of diets have played a major impact in the nutritional and dieting markets such as the Atkins and South Beach. Both diets may be considered similar since they were both designed and intended for dieters to produce similar results of dramatic rapid weight loss within stages. Though the end result may be similar, the method of achieving the weight loss differs in many aspects. Both the Atkins and South Beach diets, varies in the choice of foods consumed by the dieter and the step by step process on how the diet operates.

Before reviewing if these fad diets do provide successful weight loss, let 's define successful weight loss. This definition could be different depending on the person or entity defining it. A forty-year-old woman who is twenty pounds overweight may define successful weight loss differently than the maker of the latest fad diet for example. The woman may define the weight loss successful if she takes off twenty-five pounds, and keeps that weight off for an extended time. The fad diet creator, however, may define successful weight loss as losing that twenty pounds, period. For our research here, taking off the weight and keeping off the weight for an extended period will be the definition, as that is what most would consider healthy.

In 2012, at the age of 14, I decided that I was slightly overweight and needed to lose weight, so I decided I would go a diet plan. The diet plan I had was not a normal diet, from a professional trainer or website, but one that I created. There’s no problem with creating your own diet plan, but sometimes you may not go at in the right way. That’s what happen in my case, I decided the best way to lose weight is to lessen the amount of food I ate, which is true in some cases. I started off fine with slightly lessening the food I ate everyday, but I was not seeing results fast and I figured I was not doing something wrong. I decided I needed to cut out even more food out of my diet. In a 3 month span, I lost 15 pounds, changing my weight from 140 to 125 pounds.

To begin, body image is affected by social media. When men and women see ads and magazines with people with perfect bodies that are impossible to get, it lowers self esteem about their body image. In addition, these images are mostly photoshopped also. Patrick Kelleher, from the article “No body is perfect: is it possible to be happy with our bodies when we are constantly being bombarded with images of perfection?” explains “The images we see get stuck in our head, it makes everyone think they need to look like that.” (Kelleher). The text says that social media makes it impossible to feel good about are bodies. In fact, the images we see are photoshopped, but no one knows that. Women and men get distracted from these pictures and makes them obsessed with trying to look like that. This can also lead to eating disorders and anxiety. People get affected by social media when images get stuck in our heads. What social media doesn't show is imperfect bodies. In

The alternative to Fad diets is to change one’s lifestyle, consulting your doctors to find a healthy way of living, portion control, and exercising. Once a person decided; one wants to change the way one look for whatever reason, their mind set is different. You are more aware of the foods you consume. Exercising to give your body natural energy and not depriving yourself from treats and snacks such as ice cream or chips. It’s ok to have these things. Moderation is the key. To maintain a healthier lifestyle one needs to have the support of their friends and family. Consult their doctor. Avoid indulging on food one has no use for in their bodies. Exercise regularly even if it is a brisk walk for thirty minutes. Being mindful of what one is consuming each meal of the day. Fad diets do not help one keep the weight off. A lifestyle change does. Starting with the way you think. What are Fad Diets? Fad diets promises weight loss in short time span. One would have to consume a daily pill, drink or fast for a certain amount of time (usually 30 days or less). Fad diets seem easier than portion control and exercising.

In our society, people have the obsession and the will power to lose weight as quickly as possible. They will turn on the TV, search the web and magazines to see a commercial for a program that will provide insights on how to lose weight easily. New fad diets continue to hit the market without comprehensive and supportive scientific research. They are available in various shapes and sizes, just like the people who search them. It is important to note that fad diet gurus promote the fad diets in a double-edged process. In the emphasis, they should educate the consumers on the benefits and dangers of their products.

Many people across the globe are fascinated by showy commercials about losing weight. Often, these commercials guarantee that their customers will lose up to ten pounds in less than a week from using a fancy gizmo gadget workout machine. Some offer their viewers a diet plan that consists of little foods that make most people binge by the end of the program. The viewers are drawn to these commercials because they’ll believe what anyone says on television, and most of the time the commercials are scams. The viewers are too blind to see behind closed doors, and need to be enlightened by the true meaning of staying fit and losing weight. They don’t educate themselves before diving in to the problem. With actual exercise,

So it is important to find the right balance of the dieting and exercising. Some of the benefits of exercising is that it can help your sleep quality, prevent age related functional declines, and decrease the causes of mortality and morbidity (Padua and Laila). And when you are properly dieting you can reduce the risk of developing chronic disorders, obesity, diabetes, and other serious disorders by avoiding or eating certain foods ("The Middle-to-later Years of Life”). And the dieting is one of the most important things of losing weight, and so you need to control your food balance along with the right amount of vitamins that your body needs. “There is a huge variety of diet plans and weight loss programs—some sensible, some bizarre, and a few that are potentially dangerous” (“Diet Directory”). So you have to find the right dieting technique that fits your body needs you are going to need to do some research on dieting plans. The process of losing weight in a healthy manner is a little longer than what you want it to be, however it builds you into a routine that will help you keep the weight off and still lets you be healthy.

In continuation, the media has a negative influence on people because when it comes to role models they always choose whoever is considered beautiful. In advertisements and television in general the main person on the advertisement is always some who is really skinny or has a fit body. In media standards you always have to be skinny or have a nice fact to become successful. In the world of media, they praise girls for having a skinny body, which can affect teenagers because of the peer pressure they receive in wanting to be considered beautiful (Farrar). Even advertisers use photoshop to make both men and women's bodies even more slimmer and seem unrealistic as well as unhealthy, yet they always claim that they do not photoshop their models to look thinner and have clear skin by removing their stretch marks (Farrar). These images that the media influence can affect someone on how the picture themselves and even lower their self-esteem which can lead them into taking drastic measures that can affect them in the future (Farrar). However, this can also apply to men as well. While

Why should media define beauty? Beauty should be in the eyes of the beholder. Everyday people see mass media such as television, magazines, internet, and movies that portray the perfect body of women. Not to mention social media, which includes Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and much more, does the same. They all give unrealistic standards of beauty that females see. These women then compare false images to themselves, and it then creates huge problems in their own perception of attraction. Media uses celebrities, photoshop, cosmetic surgery and makeup to display the “ideal” image of a female and her body. Mass and social media contribute to the cause of eating disorders in females.

There are lots of fad diets and intense exercise programs out there that claim to help you lose weight. But these are usually hard to follow and the foods you’re required to eat taste like cardboard.

In continuation, the media also has a negative influence because of how popular social media is becoming, and what people say can really affect a person in a harming way. In social media many people post pictures in order to get some sort of praise from others so they can feel more confident on how they look (Simmons). Many people have become obsessed with social media and constantly post pictures because they have low self-esteem and need approval from others to feel happy (Simmons). Researchers discovered that female college students use social media platforms as a way to explain their self-worth by having people judge them on their appearance (Simmons). To further, explain, people who are obsessed with their image result to using photoshop to alter the way they look to become, in their opinion more beautiful (Simmons). Furthermore, if someone does not fit that body image, instead of explaining that it is fine to have a normal body, people attack and cyberbully the person for not being thin (Simmons). People on social media judge their beauty based on the amount of likes and retweets they get, and they believe that if they were to focus more on how their appearance is they will be able to become more beautiful (Simmons). Teenagers and adults view social media as if it is some sort of hierarchy that ranks them for their beauty depending on how popular their photos are (Simmons). It bothers people so much to get a large amount of like that they take multiple pictures to

Diet is a word that comes from the Greek words meaning “way of life.” Diet is, therefore, a lifestyle of people over an extended period. Today diet has become the most discussed issue in the society today. People seem to have been reluctant and ignorant to monitoring their diets and it is because of this that we have had diet related issues such as obesity, underweight, bulimia, and anorexia. In the world today as much as some people want to add weight majority are ready to do anything just to cut on their weight. Currently in the market today, people have come up with weight loss diets to supplement the normal exercise program that is meant to cut on weight and maintain body fitness. The main reason as to why people go for a weight loss diet rather than register for a gymnasium class is that this does not require workouts that make them tired and sweaty. However, one thing that they fail to understand is the fact that these weight loss diets has some effects on the human body in one-way or the other. In this discussion, we are going to analyze all these effects caused by weight loss diets on the market today. There are different types of weight loss diets, and these include the Atkins diet, south beach diet, the pritikin diet, zone diet, and paluo diet.

Social Media has a massive impact on a person’s self-presentation because of the different trends where everyone wants to fit in with society’s expectations of what we should look like. Celebrities are made to be our role models, however, magazines photoshop and make them more toned and a lot slimmer, which makes young people want to make their bodies more like theirs. This then leads to the modern generation becoming self-conscious because they feel they have to fit in and achieve an ideal self that fits in with those around them.

Weight loss is one of the hottest topics ever. Everyone seems to be trying to lose weight nowadays. Most diet programs are about weight loss and body weight is often used as an indicator of fitness progress. But, this is an incorrect approach.