The International No Diet Day (INDD) is an annual celebration of body acceptance and body shape diversity. This day is also dedicated to raise awareness of the dangers in diets. This day is observed on May 6, and its symbol is a light blue ribbon, similar to the red ribbon of the World AIDS Day.


INDD is a day to:

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Take a day off from whatever crazy diet plan you are following and instead honour listening to, respecting and responding to your body's unique hunger and satiety needs.
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Celebrate the beauty and diversity of ALL our natural sizes and shapes
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Affirm everyBODY's right to health, fitness, and emotional well-being
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Declare a personal one-day moratorium on diet/weight obsession
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Learn the facts about weight-loss dieting, health, and body size
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Recognise how dieting perpetuates violence against women
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Honour the victims of eating disorders and weight-loss surgery
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Help end weight discrimination, sizism and fatphobia

Wear your light blue ribbon and take the pledge:

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That I will not diet for one day, on May 6, International No Diet Day (INDD).
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Instead of trying to change my body to fit someone else's standards, I will accept myself just as I am.
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I will feed myself if I'm hungry.
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I will feel no shame or guilt about my size or about eating.
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I will think about whether dieting has improved my health and well-being or not.
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And I will try to do at least one thing I have been putting off "until I lose weight".

Consider the following:

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The average American woman is 1,63 m, weighs 63,5 kg, and wears a size 14 dress.
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The "ideal" woman – portrayed by models, Miss America, Barbie dolls, and screen actresses – is 1,7 m, weighs 45,4 kg, and wears a size 8.
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One-third of all American women wear a size 16 or larger.
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75% of American women are dissatisfied with their appearance.
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More than 50% of American women are on a diet at any one time and over 66% of them are dissatisfied with their bodies.
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Between 90% and 99% of reducing diets fail to produce permanent weight loss.
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Two-thirds of dieters regain the weight within one year. Virtually all regain it within five years.
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The diet industry (diet foods, diet programmes, diet drugs etc.) takes in over $40 billion each year, and is still growing.
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Quick-weight-loss schemes are among the most common consumer frauds, and diet programmes have the highest customer dissatisfaction of any service industry.
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Young girls are more afraid of becoming fat than they are of nuclear war, cancer, or losing their parents. Fifty percent of nine-year-old girls and 80% of 10-year-old girls have dieted.
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90% of high school girls diet regularly, even though only between 10% and 15% are over the weight recommended by the standard height-weight charts.
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Anorexia has the highest mortality rate (up to 20%) of any psychiatric diagnosis.
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Girls develop eating and self-image problems before drug or alcohol problems. There are drug and alcohol programmes in almost every school, but no eating disorder programmes.


For more info, here are a few links
www.naafa.org/events/indd.html
www.sizewise.com/docs/hindd.html
www.holidayinsights.com/moreho...day.htm
www.eskimo.com/~largesse/INDD/