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Eating Disorders > Eating Disorders and Dieting.

Dieting is known to be one of the most powerful triggers for the development of an eating disorder in both women and men.

Dieting, defined as caloric restriction for the purpose of weight loss, is known to have many negative consequences. First of all, the process and philosophy of dieting rarely takes into account the fact that healthy people come in all shapes and sizes. Instead, dieting follows the erroneous notion that personal worth is linked to physical appearance.

Individuals tend to assume that if their bodies do not look like society's 'thin' ideal that they should and can alter their body size and shape through a dieting process. However, repeated research shows that 95% to 98% of all diets fail, with persons regaining the weight (and in many cases additional weight) within one to five years. Although diets generally fail because of genetic predisposition towards a certain weight and shape, individuals tend to view diet failure as personal failure, thereby further diminishing their self-esteem.

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