| Almost everybody has tried a diet in his life. A diet is | | | | answers. No doubt about it what happens when you |
| nothing else than a change in what and how we eat. | | | | try to make a diet and start to read about all these |
| Did you ever think of eating disorders when you made | | | | things. Confusion and frustration is the result. |
| a diet? | | | | There are different reasons to make a diet. The most |
| I guess not. Today eating disorders get more and | | | | obvious one is to loose weight but there are many |
| more attention by the media. Some claim that eating | | | | others. Since there is so much information about food, |
| disorders are the results of obsessive dieting. Today | | | | nutrition, dieting and cooking that many started to |
| we know different kinds of eating disorders and gave | | | | celebrate a special type of diet or eating habit as a |
| it names like bulimia or anorexia nervosa. | | | | lifestyle. |
| The more we hear and read about it, the more we | | | | It is like with any other habit in any other part of your |
| see signs of these eating disorders by ourselves. Are | | | | life. If you get obsessive about something then you |
| you too asking yourself all day if the things you eat are | | | | may loose control. Behavior that you repeat over and |
| good for you? Are they healthy, fresh and well | | | | over again becomes a habit that you perform without |
| cooked? Do they contain enough vitamins and | | | | paying attention to it anymore. |
| minerals? Do I get enough fibers? Did I eat too much | | | | If you diet because you like to diet then you are on a |
| fat? How many calories did I just consume? And so | | | | dangerous path. A diet is nothing more than a aid to |
| on and so forth. | | | | achieve a goal, for example to loose weight. Once the |
| Nutrition can be a quite confusing topic. There is just | | | | goal is achieved the diet stops. |
| too much information about it out there. Way too | | | | Common sense? Should be. But if you are a victim of |
| much. And it gets more with every day. Still, science | | | | an eating disorder like anorexia nervosa then you |
| does not know the answers to all questions and is still | | | | continue to diet for unknown reasons. You are starving |
| guessing on many things. | | | | yourself to death. Why not just stop the diet? It is not |
| How many diets do you know? How many are there? | | | | possible anymore. The habits became part of the |
| Which ones are really working and why? It is a big | | | | behavior. |
| industry and a lot of money is made from the lack of | | | | There is a Chinese saying that warns you about your |
| knowledge. I do not know many who can enumerate | | | | goals because they may become true. Be careful with |
| all known vitamins and minerals. Can you? And what | | | | your nutrition. It changes or body and mind. We all |
| exactly are these vitamins and minerals good for and | | | | should go for a healthy lifestyle but never pass the line. |
| in which foods can they be found? | | | | There can also be negative effects like eating |
| You see, even this question alone could fill a book with | | | | disorders. |