Different Method:
1. High-Protein diets
2. Low-Fat diets
3. All-Vegetable diets
4. No-Carb diets
Why People Diet:
1. Unhealthy weight and need to pay closer attention to their weight.
2. Play sports and want to be in top physical condition.
3. look and feel better
4. Some people may diet because they think they are supposed to look a certain way.
5. They are actors and actresses
6. Thin models: Fashions
7. People that are overweight -> reduce weight, once done -> continue to diet as it’s a habit
8. Being provoked by fashion industry (thinner is more attractive)
Healthy Eating:
1. Avoiding Fat: Teenagers -> 25%
65 and over -> 49%
2. Avoiding Sugar: Teenagers -> 17%
65 and over -> 44%
3. Avoiding lots of vegetable: Teenagers -> 53%
65 and over -> 77%
Singapore polls
Out of 745 women, 671 women want to lose weight. And out of these 745 women, their BMI range is from 14-34.
Asian healthy BMI: 18.5 – 23
This shows that even women that are within the healthy range wants to go on diet.
Most go on diet for wrong reason:
40% -> Health problem
60% -> – Feeling inferior
- Please their partners (afraid that their husband were having affair)
- Avoid discrimination at work
- Low Self-Esteem
- Obese patients (high cholesterol, diabetes, hypertension and obstructive sleep aphoea)
Percentage of reason people want to lose weight:
- Improve health problem: 41.2%
- Stop feeling inferior to slim and beautiful women: 33.3%
- Stop experiencing prejudice at work and social environment: 6%
- Fear of losing partners: 3.4%
Why people go for unhealthy diet:
- People get over anxious about their weight and unknowingly go for unhealthy diet
- Stress
- Depression
- Eating habits
- Unaware of calories and diet and junk food
Main Reason:
- Lack of awareness and planning
- People are busy and they are unable to look healthy food
