My Say on: "Six Weeks to OMG: Get Skinnier Than All Your Friends: Experts' view of controversial diet plan"

Six Weeks to OMG: Get Skinnier Than All Your Friends: Experts' view of controversial diet plan - Mirror Online:

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My say:

For once I agree with SOMETHING a diet promoter claims! Personal trainer, Paul Khanna (writing under the pseudonym Venice Fulton), says that merely using his diet will not give you an eating disorder, because eating disorders are within people. He also, admirably states that magazines, newspapers & the media in general will not cause you to become eating disordered, although I haven't seen his sources for this. Most "policies" on eating disorders & dieting by magazines, even governments (eg. Australia's), link the media to frank anorexia or bulimia, although the studies done have not shown a dose-response relationship. Colleagues & I in Adelaide & Sydney [Australia] performed a dose-response study of media consumption & dieting behaviours that could possibly be linked to eating disorders and found no connection, let alone "causation".

However, I think Paul Khanna needs to emphasise caution in dieting behaviour rather than competition, along with the caveat that his variety of dieting is for ADULTS ONLY and for adults with mature approaches to life and their emotions concerning obesity.

Personally, I believe most sensible adults won't try this diet, but some with concerns about weight & appearance may make themselves more psychologically unhealthy by following it's tenets.