Losing weight is a woman's duty??

I wouldn't go as far as saying its a woman's job to lose weight as long as she isn't obese. Whether you are a man or a woman, if you are obese or near obesity its your job to lose weight because its just not right nor is it healthy. Though you are correct that its becoming popular nowadays to be thin, in my opinion this is not right. Being healthy doesn't mean you have to be thin right? You just need to have a balanced weight proportional to your height and that for me is the right perspective to look at weight. As always moderation is the key to a healthy life.

If losing weight is a woman's duty, then I am not a woman. I never try to lose weight and I never will.I think there is too much pressure on young women to look a certain way and be a certain weight. I was that weight and I never tried to be. So I guess I am out.

Hi Tianli, I'm curious - why is losing weight a woman's duty? Well, I had been very plump during my high school years; I was about 15-16 years old. And my best friend was making fun of me - that really hurt! So I went on a diet - read up everything about calories and stuff like that, and limited my food intake to xx calories per day. That diet plus the stress of studying for exams really worked - I lost a lot of weight. Looking back, it was rather silly! Now I'm not able to put on much weight, as I've a stressful working life. On the other hand, it means I can eat without worrying about calories!

if you compare the people from the time when food industries and modern technology didn't exist, then you'd say that at the time there needn't be any diet or any nutrition doctor. But today, food has been over processed and over production has been the crisis...so food is easy to get to today, and in the foods there are alot of additives, which are toxins too destroying the human cells, as well as confusing the body altogether. Diet doctors will only be necessary cos there are alot of eat out places, and addiction is a sophistication not human nature. Therefore the increase of food production and easy access to it causes people to become unhelpfully fat and will only go on a diet as an excuse. Television is another reason why people go ondiets, television has indirectly influenced women's thinking, seeing hot babes on movies, and seeing diet adverts, which makes normal people shy away.