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No one should worry about its weight day after day. "If it is your case, banish your scales and the diets in the dungeon and cultivate the pleasure rather to eat without guilt."

It is what Fannie indicated Dagenais, director of the group of action on the weight scales, at the time of the launching of the activities that will be held in the setting of the International Day without diet (JISD), May 6, 2008.

About sixty activities foreseen during the whole month of May aim the mothers and their filles1 mainly. "The excessive preoccupation with regard to the weight touches especially the women and it can appear to a young age", explain the dietitian-nutritionist.

At the women who have resort to products or services to get thinner, 39% began to worry of their weight before the age of 19 years, and little among them imagine their life without having to control their poids2. More again, at the little girls of 9 years, one on three tried to lose the weight, according to Fannie Dagenais.

"The body perfects does not exist"

Several reasons can lead a person to carry an excessive attention to his / her / its weight. But Fannie Dagenais has some especially against the cult of beauty and the myth of the maintained by the thinness of the fashion industry.

"The perfect bodies that one shows us in the magazines do not exist, the pictures are faked by computer, she / it denounces. Less 5% some women have the silhouette of the models. It is necessary to fight this illusion."

Otherwise, led struggle against the epidemic of obesity could also have the perverse effect to incite people to believe that they must lose the weight.

"The obesity is a problem of public health preoccupying, but the obsession of the weight in is also one because it has ominous consequences on health", pursues the dietitian-nutritionist.

"The real epidemic is not so much the one of the weight that the one the junk food, the sedentary lifestyle and the quest miracles of methods to get thinner," pursues Fannie Dagenais.

Opposite to the food drastic changes, she / it rather proposes to cultivate the pleasure to eat well, to trust the signals of hunger and repletion, not to forbid itself / themselves any food that one likes, to move for the pleasure and to agree of The moments of relaxation.

Of the teenagers preoccupied by their weight

According to the group Balances, a teenager out of two jumps one meal per day to avoid to take the weight or to get thinner. One on four fasts all day for the same reasons. And until one on ten restarts to smoke to fight the hunger.

Carol-Ann Small fort, that will be 16 years old soon, to confirm that the secondary school that she / it frequently, most youngsters wish, to different degrees, to project a picture in conformity with the stereotypes transported by the industry of the fashion .

"All my friends worry of their weight, she / it confides. Even those that do not have a weight to lose try to get thinner.." One of his / her / its friends, that wishes to become model, constantly try to lose some kilograms, believing that she / it will sign more contracts.

"For us, the teenagers, to follow the fashion and the tendencies, it is important, she / it sustains. But it is necessary to stop envying the other and to stop being influenced by the advertisements that one sees every day."

For Fannie Dagenais, the parents have a vital role to play to counter the obsession of the weight. "

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