It is like producing a range of slightly blunter blades for the self-harming, or slightly reduced moonshine for alcoholics, or boxing gloves for the domestically violent.There have been experiments where kids have been left to  Cut Resistant Arm Guard Manufacturers select their own intake from a range of offered foods everything from trash candy to fresh fruit, with all other major foods and kinds of dishes being represented.

　　Yet a similar kind of lunacy continues within the food arena, with every conceivable variety of lo-calorie, lo-fat, lo-carbohydrate or lo-sugar being promoted as the cure to all one's underlying eating, weight and self-image issues.No area of human addictions is so badly served or exploited as that relating to food, eating and dieting. Is food your problem? Then, hey, come right over here because we have more food that just happens to be your personal solution!But legislation is rarely the right answer to these things.

　　Next time you are tempted by any diet product (which can be as superficially ok as a lowered calorie something or other), forcibly remind yourself that it is all nonsense. And, much more importantly, beyond this initial breakthrough acknowledgment, learn to accept that nothing we put in our mouths (certainly nothing that emanates in any shape or form from the Dieting Industry) actually has much to do with it at all.

　　There is a growing Academic Industry which needs to fuel itself with research and that often becomes research for research's sake. However, this so often ends up in the backwater of nutrition, not the mainstream requirement for a better mass understanding of the psychology of eating.

　　Hand-in-hand with an anti-dieting message needs to be a proactive and personal sense of awareness about the social structures which support the Dieting Madness. It is the total consumed which matters, not the sum of the parts.

　　The problem is that we are in danger of losing sight that food and eating is actually quite easy and instinctive.