Happy International No Diet Day!

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Posted by Erin Zimmer, May 6, 2008 at 3:45 PM

If you see pale blue ribbons around today, they could be honoring INDD or International No Diet Day, celebrated every May 6. Recovering anorexic Mary Evans Young founded the holiday in 1992 as a response to a thin-obsessed, thigh-hating culture. About $40 billion is spent each year on weight loss tactics, but today we are supposed to love our bodies, no matter what size or shape.

4 Comments | Tags: diet, International Diet Day

4 Comments:

Thanks for posting this halfway through the actual holiday.....

Asado at 5:19PM on 05/06/08

Oh, I observed this yesterday after a huge Cinco de Mayo dinner. I'm still rolling around painfully from it, but man, that carne asada was worth it!

OneWallKitchen at 5:55PM on 05/06/08

Just got home from work and read this...I believe I'll be ordering a pizza now instead of putting together that salad.

liwinegirl at 8:55PM on 05/06/08

There's a big difference between "loving your body thin or not" and "recognizing that we live in a nation with a serious obesity epidemic".

We should not be obsessed with all being Size 2 rails, but that doesn't give anyone the right to just pig out and endlessly expand.

jd7979 at 2:25PM on 05/08/08

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