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A recent poll reveals to what point the Quebecois, as all the other women to the country, are preoccupied by their weight, even when they have a weight health.

According to the results of the sondage1, a very big majority of women wants to lose the weight (73% of the Quebecois interrogated), even though several ponderal do not have a surplus. Indeed, 50% of the respondents having a weight health indicated to want to get thinner and 22% of the women whose weight is insufficient affirmed to want to lose some kilograms all the same.

Surprising? "One knew that there was a tendency of the sort, but what astonishes indeed, it is the size of the problem", explain Fannie Dagenais, dietitian and director of the Group of action on the ÉquiLibre2 weight, that participated in the development of this Poll.

She / it finds especially troubling to note that "the management of the weight" dictate life of more than a Quebecois on five (21%). "Several harmful behaviors ensue of this concern, as the fact to jump of meals, to banish some groups of food or to follow restraining regimes", she / it illustrates.

The ideal of thinness before the health

According to the gotten results, the ideal of the thinness, as valorized in the media and the advertisement, account for many in the desire to get thinner. Thus, 83% of the women answered to want to lose the weight to have a better esteem of oneself; criteria has more often evoked the fact that to want to improve his / her / its health (65% of the respondents). Besides, 62% of the Quebecois told to feel a social pressure to remain thin or to lose the weight.

The men would not be saved either. The youngest would be especially subject to them as unrealistic models that would make them unsatisfied of their body and would push them to the intensive practice and to the hold of supplements.

To avoid to fall in the panel of the regimes miracles and the vicious circle of the permanent dissatisfaction, Fanny Dagenais suggests to start with accepting itself / themselves like person. "When one appreciates itself, one has more incentive to take care of oneself. One will grant more time then to get ready meals of good health or to make the physical activity," she / it underlines. It is necessary to find the pleasure especially to take care of oneself and to agree occasionally of the small treats, she / it adds.

She / it also recalls that to really manage his / her / its weight, no matter his / her / its silhouette, it is sufficient to adopt healthy habits of life: "One has all favors to eat well and to make the physical activity. To be thin does not put us safe from the cardiovascular illnesses or the diabetes if our food is unbalanced. The weight is not all! "

As for the indication of bodily mass (weight health), it is only an indicator among others to value the risk of illnesses, specify Fannie Dagenais. "It is not necessary to stop to it. One speaks of so epidemic of obesity that it is one of the factors that created this excessive preoccupation in relation to the weight. To the point where some people put their health and their well-being in peril in order to control their weight ", she / it sustains.

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