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Have you ever looked in the mirror and thought that you should be on a diet?

Different diets, why? What is it good for? Aren’t we human beings supposed to have a body to be proud of? I think we all had it when we were younger, but then all magazines, MTV-videos and “girl-and-boy ideals” were built up. I mean, how may people were over weighted in the stone age, when not a single diet existed? Nowadays we can see fat people everywhere, on the bus, in school, in our neighbourhood or maybe in our own family.
- Even though you don't care about diets, even if you are happy with who you are, you're almost forced to read about diets everywhere, says a girl I have spoken to. And maybe you'll get the impression that you have to be on a diet because everyone else is.
But all these diets, do they work? Some people try diet after diet without any results.
So what is a “good” diet? A diet that means that you almost can’t eat something or a diet that tells you to train a lot? Or maybe a crash-diet, or a long-term diet that will be easier to hold on to? A diet who tells you to leave a whole group of nourishment, carbohydrate for example?
This is a huge it subject and gives the mass media what you can call a PR trick. They use our “loose – weight – panic” to sell even more. One week this diet and next week that diet.
But if you are a “normal” person. is it necessary for you to be on a diet?
- Well, if you really are over weight, a diet is good, because your weight wears out your joints a lot, but you should still feel free to eat what ever you want without counting every calorie.

Diets, diets, diets. They are everywhere and everybody use them. Or is it really everybody? All these different diets, all this celebrity diets, welcome to the 21th century, the century of diets.

To try to sum this article up and not try to bore you out with all my thoughts, I will try to answer some questions on my own. I have asked a few persons at my school and these are some results I have got.
Have you ever felt that you should go on a diet?
On that question some of the persons thought that they should have been on a diet, because the pressure of looking good is pretty big. On the other hand some of them thought that they trained a lot so they were happy with themselves.
Do you see many people around you in your own age who is on a diet?
And yes, most of them know friends and other people who are on a diet, and most of the people are their own age.
How do you look upon people around you who is on a diet?
Now the answers were pretty different. Some thought that it's good for those people who need help to loose weight, but don't have the courage to seek other help. But it's also wrong, because they who are satisfied with their body can feel that the pressure gets too big and suddenly they feel that they want to loose weight, and that could be a very big danger for their health. Some other thought that they don't even care of what the newspaper says and are happy with themselves.

So, what do you think about diets? Is it right of the media to publish so much about diets so kids who are only twelve years old have to read about it and in that way be receivers of it?