Dieting In America Americans idealization of slender young bodies plays a major role in this seemingly addictive behavior of dieting. The media relentlessly portrays the ideal woman at five feet seven inches and 105 pounds. So we diet and binge our way to our ideal weight. Sometimes it seems all in vein. From the grapefruit diet, to the “six meals a day nibbler diet”, thousands of diets promise to help you lose weight and hundreds of …showed first 75 words of 3109 total…

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