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THE DIET
Since a long time, the diet has played an important role in the feeding of people in
general. Dieting is the practice of eating food in a regulated and supervised fashion to
decrease, maintain, or increase body weight, or to prevent and treat diseases, such as
diabetes and obesity.
Exercise and eating healthy are two of the most important things you need to do to take
care of your body properly. Both exercise, and eating healthy, have many advantages and
benefits. They help with multiple things needed throughout your life. These things include
growing physically, mentally, and if you are religious, spiritually as well. All of this adds up to
your body functioning in the highest and best way possible. Exercise, or physical activity
helps your body in many ways. For example, exercise helps control the weight of a human. It
helps prevent people gaining unwanted weight and helps people who have unwanted
weight to lose it.
Maintaining a healthy diet is the practice of making choices about what to eat with the
intent of improving or maintaining good health. Usually this involves consuming necessary
nutrients by eating the appropriate amounts from all of the food groups, including an
adequate amount of water. Since human nutrition is complex a healthy diet may vary
widely subject to an individual’s genetic makeup, environment, and health.
A restricted diet is more often pursued by those wanting to lose weight. Continuous
dieting is recommended by US guidelines for obese or diabetic individuals to reduce body
weight and improve general health. When talking about diet, one cannot omit the fact
that DIET is confused with LOSING WEIGHT since years, a big problem that causes other
problems such as anorexia, orthorexia and bulimia.
¿What is the origin of the word diet?
The word diet used to mean the food and drink that we habitually consume did not
appear in English until the thirteenth century, but it also had another sense, meaning “a
way of life.”

The second meaning is more in line with the word’s origins, as it comes from the
Greek diaita via diaitan. Diaita was a noun that meant a way of living, and also had a more
specific meaning, signifying a way of living as advised by a physician, which could include a
“food” diet and other daily habits.

In the Middle Ages, diet more often had this connotation of a dietary (or other) regimen
prescribed by a doctor. Such “diets” were often fasts of one kind or another so that diet
usually referred to a confined and regimented way of eating done for a specific purpose.
This sense, of course, survives in the popular use of the word “diet” to describe a way of
eating specifically done to achieve a weight loss goal.

A way of eating was not always the only thing the word diet could refer to. Another,
unrelated word diet came from the Medieval Latin word diet, which could be used to refer
to a jay’s journey, or work, or wage. It was also used for a particular day which was set for
a meeting or assembly. For example, when the councilors of the Holy Roman Empire met
in assembly, this was called a diet.

DIET VS. LOSE WEIGHT

While there are studies that show the health and medical benefits of weight loss, a study
in 2005 of around 3000 Finns over an 18-year period showed that weight loss from dieting
can result in increased mortality, while those who maintained their weight fared the
best. Similar conclusion is drawn by other studies, and although other studies suggest that
intentional weight loss has a small benefit for individuals classified as unhealthy, it is
associated with slightly increased mortality for healthy individuals and the slightly
overweight but not obese.

In addition to being risky, "magic or fad diets fail to maintain weight loss in the medium
and long term, and predispose to gain more weight in the future," say the specialists of
the Argentine Nutrition Society (SAN).

According to them, a good program to treat overweight requires "a long-term

commitment, with healthy behaviors related to a personalized, balanced, pleasant, safe,
sustainable and habitual physical activity eating plan".

THE DARK SIDE OF “PERFECT” DIETS

There’s a popular belief that the ‘perfect’ diet is  fi lled with limitati ons and
restricti ons. However, this noti on is detrimental to both the mind and body.
Let’s learn more about the pitf alls of trying to be “too healthy”.

There’s so much talk about healthy eati ng in our society that it may be hard to
believe there’s such a thing as “too healthy.” However, a growing number of
nutriti on and health professionals are seeing a concerning trend emerging:
people who are so concerned about eati ng “healthy” or the “right” things that
it begins to negati vely impact other aspects of their lives.

In the 1990s, Dr. Steven Bratman coined the term “orthorexia. He was trying
to describe an obsession with healthy eati ng that he was saw in some of his
pati ents. While orthorexia is not a clinical term or a medical diagnosis for an
eati ng disorder, it is considered a type of  disordered eati ng.
We all want to eat well to improve our health, but those who struggle with
orthorexia take it to the extreme. They oft en have a long list of “bad” foods or
ingredients that they are not allowed to have.

Oft en avoiding social gatherings that make it diffi cult to eat “healthy” or
“clean”, they end up isolati ng themselves from their social circles. Planning
meals or reading about food take up large porti ons of their days, which oft en
results in further dietary restricti ons.

The level of perfecti on that orthorexia demands is not sustainable. Feelings of

guilt and diminished self-worth burden people with orthorexia, when faced
with their inability to maintain their diet. As a result, they have an overall
poorer quality of life fi lled with isolati on and constant stress surrounding food
and meals.

Unfortunately, our society’s love of fad diets and weight loss “secrets” creates
a dangerous environment where disordered and restricti ve eati ng patt erns
fl ourish. Because orthorexia tends to be individualized, there is no single diet
that those who suff er from it follow.  This makes it even more diffi cult to
identi fy individuals who have orthorexia.

His dream was to be a dancer. The English Margherita Barbieri, during her childhood,
pursued her great longing. She wanted it with so many forces that led her to make wrong
decisions. "Your physique is unacceptable for dance," his teachers then told him. "Steel
thighs", nicknamed her in a sly tone. Margherita had a physique according to her age, but
the obsession with the extreme thinness that they instilled in her had her the wrong way.

From that moment, Margherita changed her diet for a dietary routine of only 140 calories
a day. His plan was to fast every day. Eat only one bowl of oatmeal and then spend
another 48 hours without coming into contact with any food.

Soon - it could not be otherwise - the young woman affected an alarming anorexia. He
came to weigh only 25 kilos. Half of its weight, since before incurring the dangerous diet,
weighed 50.

We can all have different thoughts about the importance of diet in people's lives, but we
all agree that each human being is different from another and for that reason we have
different needs. Therefore, not everyone can eat the same diet as another person or
weigh the same. Something that is also very important to emphasize is that the quality of
a person is not measured by how much he weighs or how much he eats, but by his
personal integrity.