What a miserable lot dieters are! You can always recognize them from the sour expression on their faces. They spend most of their time turning their noses up at food.They are forever consulting their calorie charts; gazing at themselves in mirrors; and leaping on to weighing-machinesin the bathroom. They spend a lifetime fighting a losing battle against spreading hips, protruding tummies and double chins.Some wage all-out war on fat. Mere dieting is not enough. They exhaust themselves doing exercises, sweating in sauna baths, being pummeled and massagedby weird machines. Don't think it's only the middle-aged who go in for these fads either. Many of these bright young things you see are suffering from chronic malnutrition:they are living on nothing but air and water.
"Wonder food is a complete food," the advertisement says. "Just dissolve a teaspoonful in water..." A complete food it may be, but not quite so complete as a juicy steak...
What's all this self-inflicted torturefor? It will be a great day when all the dieters in the world abandon their slimming courses;when they hold out plates and demand a second helping.
There are only two ways to avoid gaining weight: eating less and taking exercise. Which one would you prefer, if any? Why?
Is a slim body worth so many worries and restrictions?
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Read the text and make a list of requirements each diet should follow in order to be proper.