Saturday, March 2, 2013

Why You Should not Trust Celebrity Diets

Sometimes it seems as if we're trapped in a strange system. There's a huge pressure to get fit and lose weight, one exerted on us through a couple of factors. Firstly, there's the obvious health benefits, we all understand being fitter is... well, fitter. Secondly, there's the effect of celebrity and media. You're unlikely to see actors or general superstars who aren't in apparently amazing shape. If all our successful role models are thin, it sends a fairly clear message that we need to be as well.

Unfortunately, one of the ways this message is transmitted is via celebrity dieting. Dieting is a huge industry, rife with fads and general silliness. Each year a few diets get promoted heavily in the media, and thousands of hopeful individuals get caught up in them. Sometimes they lose weight permanently, quite often they'll bounce back within a few months. Either way, it's worth noting why these diets can't be inherently trusted.

We'll open with an important point, which is there's rarely a guarantee the celebrity is using the diet themselves. Commonly a writer will create a dieting system, and publishers will pay a celebrity to license it. The star gets a hefty pay out, and the publisher sees far greater sales over time. Chances are the relevant celebrity does make a sincere effort keeping themselves fit, but you can't be certain you'll be using the same system.

Now, if the celebrity is doing book tours, commenting on their strategies and seeming genuinely informed, there's a good chance they're legitimate. But then we have a second problem, which is that celebrities aren't nutritionists. They don't even sound similar! Where individuals have vastly differing metabolisms and nutritional needs, what works for is unlikely to work for you. Add on this the fact that eating disorders are rife in Hollywood, and thin doesn't necessarily mean healthy. Just because a celebrity genuinely stays thin on a diet of nothing but cabbage doesn't mean doing so yourself isn't fairly suicidal.

Vitiligo Diet - A Natural Diet for Vitiligo Cure

It is possible that you or one of your loved one is suffering from Vitiligo at this moment because you are reading this article. You must also be already aware that Vitiligo does not have any definite cure as such. However there are certain steps you can take to control your Vitiligo. And the best and simplest step is to control your diet.

But controlling diet is much easier said than done. You might not be aware also that the environment in which you are living right now, might be actually be a big hindrance to your efforts of following a Vitiligo diet.

Look around you and see at the level of environmental pollutants around. Are they high? If yes, then they will make your Vitiligo worse. You can now either decide to protect yourself from these pollutants or get out of that environment to start your Vitiligo diet.

You might not like the idea of moving out, but in the long term, it is going to do your skin a world of good. Once you have controlled the environment around you, it is time to focus on your Vitiligo diet. Ask these questions to yourself:

1. What kind of food do you eat daily?
2. How frequently do you eat these kinds of foods?