Who's Doing What For INDD 2001?
NAAFA's Policy on Diet Pills
NAAFA's Policy on Weight Loss Surgery
NAAFA's Policy on Dieting and the Diet Industry
For more information on NAAFA, call (916)558-6880, or
send e-mail to NAAFA at naafa@naafa.org.
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No Diet Day was started in 1992 by Mary Evans Young, the director of the
British anti-diet campaign Diet Breakers and the author of a best-selling
book in Britain titled Diet Breaking: Having It All Without Having To Diet
(Hodder & Stoughton, 1995). The following year, and each year since
then, No Diet Day has been celebrated internationally.
International No Diet Day (INDD) remains necessary because the media, the
medical community, family, friends, and society in general constantly send
out the message that fat is ugly, fat is unhealthy, and fat is something
to lose at all costs. Discrimination in employment, health care, education,
and housing exists for fat people. Fat people face accessibility issues
daily.
This has caused an obsession with dieting in our world. Dieting obsession
has led to deadly eating disorders, unhealthy use of diet pills, weight
loss surgeries with serious long-term health degradation, and a myriad of
health problems due to poor eating habits.
Obesity research shows that long term weight loss is unattainable by most
people. No direct correlation has been found between a person's weight & their
health/fitness level.
INDD is our chance to get people out of the 'diet at all costs' routine,
if only for one day. INDD gives us a day to remind people that they are
special & worthy at any weight. We use this day to educate ourselves, our
family/friends, and our community on the truths of dieting.
INDD continues to grow into more countries. INDD has been celebrated in
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, Norway, South Africa, Russia, and
the United States. INDD brings the size acceptance community together as
no other day does, and provides the impetus many need to get involved and
make a difference.
NAAFA fully supports INDD, and encourages its members
and chapters to celebrate the day. Within NAAFA, INDD
has been celebrated from coast to coast.
For a light blue ribbon (the symbol for INDD) and an
INDD pamphlet, send a self addressed envelope to
NAAFA, P.O. Box 188620, Sacramento, CA 95818.