It is a well-known fact nowadays that healthy eating is an absolute must in order to keep our bodies full of nutrition so we are bursting with life and energy. Celebs our forever being pictured with enormous bottles of water by there sides. Every single magazine has a recipe for a big healthy salad and low fat dressing. However, the message that seems to be confused here is if you want to be healthy you are not allowed to eat very much at all. For a start that is a load of cobblers because as long as you are exercising regularly you can eat a damn well feast if it’s healthy food. But, as usual, it is the famous people that are causing all of the hype with the well-known "Fad Dieting".

Fad Diets are restrictive diets – diets that focus on one food or a group of foods. The problem with these diets is that they are simply not healthy. By just eating one sort of food type you would be starving your body of everything else that is essential in our diets for our body to keep on working properly. These so-called miracle diets that celebs swear by are often successful due to the harsh and obsessive exercise routines that they endure, rather than the diets themselves.

Fad Diets, as well as being an unhealthy way of eating, can also trigger more serious problems, such as Anorexia and Bulimia. Approximately 1.15 million people in the United Kingdom are affected by serious and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders. 90% of those people being young adult women, or teenagers. The main reason why women and teenagers are more vulnerable to eating disorders is their tendency to go on strict diets to achieve the "ideal" figure that we see in the media. However, a lot more men are also being diagnosed with eating disorders, due to the modern idea that everyone should have a model figure.

That’s the one question we need to ask ourselves, as it is pretty likely that at some point we have felt unhappy with ourselves and have thought about dieting. Most of us would immediately think of the answer that we turn to fad diets because we want to be slimmer – a pretty obvious answer. However, why do we feel the need to be slimmer? I personally, and I know many other people would say it is because we are constantly reminded of how wonderful certain celebrities look, and what their secrets are for achieving their "perfect" body. Every magazine is full of tips on how to look like Geri Halliwell and Jennifer Aniston, or how Brad Pitt works out to get his figure. In an ideal world most of us would like to look like that but the thing is guys and girls not all of us have the build to be that small!

In the 21^st Century, shouldn’t we be more concerned with how healthy are bodies are on the inside? Especially now we all know how important it is to stay healthy and what we have to do to live a long and energetic life. We need energy for this modern lifestyle, we need a well balanced diet to keep are bodies happy and most of all we need regular exercise to keep ourselves at a fit and healthy state.

So next time you think about going on a fad diet in order to turn yourself into the next supermodel, STOP! Think of what your body needs on the inside rather than what you feel you should look like on the outside. I guarantee that you will have a much happier and healthier life!

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