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Nagi · Joined: 13 Jul 2004 Posts: 5

Hello. I am a Japanese college student.

Now, in Japan, the bad diet has been a problem.
Girls of a schoolchild or a junior high school student is caring about appearance, and is doing the diet.
And there are some children who develops anorexia and dies because of a diet in it.
Are you believed?They are schoolchild!!It is not believed by me.
Is appearance more important than health?

What do you think?Please tell me an opinion.

river1974 · Joined: 20 May 2003 Posts: 525 Location: Taiwan

I think appearance and health are both important. As an adult, I pay more attention to my health than my appearance, since I am the supporter of my family and thus need to keep healthy. But for youngsters, I think their thinking and ideas are greatly influenced by external environments and peer pressure. They consider themselves unpretty if they don't have a good appearance. People change as time goes by. One day they will not care their appearance so much and will focus on something more meaningful.

elbharat · Joined: 15 Jan 2004 Posts: 29

Hello everybody,

I am from India and I think you all know about india. Here, diet is a part of relegious/cultural tradition and many Indians do it to reduce their weight and this is very Scientific approach. If any one want to know about this system , can contact at the following mail address.

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MissMix · Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 4

Hi, everyone!
U can hardly find a young girl who has never tried a diet. What's surprising, everybody understands that it's just a 'tribute to the fashion'. But how wonderful u feel when u go along the street and people turn round to look at u and think: ''Wow! She looks great!"
Personally I think that dieting won't do any harm if girls try it in reasonable way. It'll just put their self-confidence up.
Moreover, there is one more way to have a good figure. It is sport. Go for training every day and u don't need any diet!