Since 1992, every May 6th has been recognized as International No Diet Day. Sponsored by an international coalition of health professionals and consumer advocacy organizations, it’s not a day to break one’s diet, but to break free from dieting and weight preoccupations altogether. International No Diet Day was established to challenge the cultural attitudes and values that contribute to chronic dieting, weight preoccupation, eating disorders, and size discrimination.
It’s a day devoted to bringing education and greater awareness of the dangers of dieting, bariatric surgery and obsessions with thinness.
It’s an annual day to celebrate body diversity and appreciate all natural sizes and shapes; a day to bring understanding that “one size does NOT fit all;” a day to affirm everyBODY’s right to health and well-being; a day to end weight discrimination and sizism; and a day to remember the victims of eating disorders and bariatric surgery. More than 8,000 people, mostly healthy young women, are estimated to have died from bariatric surgery just in 2005 alone. So go ahead, celebrate the body that is you! Happy No Diet Day!!
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