Fad Diets
According to Michael P. Levine, in his book, The Prevention of Eating Problems and Eating Disorders, “Preventing eating disorders would spare many people and their families years of suffering and the specter of death from starvation or suicide.” Eating Disorders cause many problems in life; they are something we need to stop because fad diets are unhealthy in many ways. First, fad diets are unhealthy because they cause rapid weight loss. The first cause of rapid weight loss in fad diets is women’s health, looks, and reproduction. David S. Goldbloom states in the book Medical Issues and the Eating Disorders: the Interface, “Females are more known for fad diets do to their physical complications reproduction.” Women are usually emotional during reproduction cycles, they do not like the way they look, and they begin dieting in dangerous ways. Looks are not everything! People should not diet quickly to cause happiness, because health wise it is not good for the human body. The way someone looks should not affect their lives in ways that they would look to dangerous dieting.
A second cause of rapid weight loss in fad diets is eating too much due to reproduction appetitive drives. Goldbloom also mentions that “It is well-known that disturbed eating behavior from any cause can disrupt menstrual function, it is perhaps less well-known that the menstrual cycle itself influences appetitive drives.” Women will both eat too much and become obese, or they will starve themselves to lose weight quickly. Rapid weight loss is unhealthy and dangerous to any human being. A third cause of weight loss in fad diets is that people will go without food to lose weight. Some people go without food for a short period of time, resulting in faster weight loss than normal dieting would be. Going without food for even a very short period of time is unhealthy, human bodies need