Forget about the food fads and eat what you want

Today is International No Diet Day and Claire Droney wonders why so many women are obsessed with their weight

A GIRL stands in front of a mirror, and asks her boyfriend, “Why am I so fat?”. “Because you eat junk and do no exercise,” he thinks, but wisely doesn’t verbalise his thoughts.

It should be as simple as that. Eat less junk, exercise more often, and you won’t put on weight. But why does such a plethora of celebrity-endorsed, fad diets still exist? There is the Coconut diet, the Cookie diet, the Ice Cube diet, the Purple Food diet, the Salt and Vinegar diet, the Babyfood diet, the Cabbage Soup diet, the Raw Food diet, the Maple Syrup diet and even the Hypno diet, where you hypnotise yourself to think yourself thin.