International No Diet Day

The International Anti- Diet Day (English International No Diet Day - INDD for short), is an unofficial international day of action. It was launched by the British author and feminist Mary Evans Young, and takes place every year on May 6.

The origins of this day of action lie in 1992. The cured of anorexia Mary Evans Young founded the anti - dieting campaign Diet Breakers. She received media attention after they campaigned on talk shows and TV interviews for the acceptance of one's body and against the thinness. As drive Young gave both their own destiny as well as media reports of stomach stapling and possible complications as well as reports of adolescent girls at that suicide had committed, "because they could no longer bear to be fat. " Reports on the initiative and sympathizers there now available in many countries around the world.

The objectives of the Anti- Diet Tags According to the initiators include:

  • Evaluating the variety of natural size and weight differences
  • The critical analysis of beauty ideals
  • Help against the discrimination of overweight and obese
  • Instruction about the health dangers of dieting and the inefficiency of commercial diets and diet products
  • The demonstration of a link between diet and violence against women
  • Memory of the victims of Bariatric Surgery
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