Beauty of a Gram

Book excerpt: The world is infected with false diet beliefs and distorted self-images. Today the media pushes strong beauty benchmarks and conformity, causing women to start dangerous or foolhardy diets without seeing any true long-term benefit in their body weights or shapes. Illness and further weight gain, through dieting, have become more frequent than ever as has low self-confidence and negative self-perception in young minds. This book is meant to help change misleading attitudes towards diets and false eating habits and will help readers better understand their bodies and minds.