REFLECTION TOPIC 7

Unit 7 covers about ‘Dieting: a waist is a terrible thing to mind’ written by Seligman, Martin (1994). The things that touch on my attention is about ‘Depression and Dieting’. According to the reading, the depression could appear in dieting whenever a person failed to set up his or her diet properly. They might not achieve their goal in order to decrease weight and finally they become depress and women are the group who are dominant with this problem. From here, we could see the significant relationship between depression and dieting that could be effect the weight. This is because feelings play the important role to a person in order to be the winner or loser.

Moreover, something that always is the question mark in my mind is why the diet pills can contribute to the increase of weight. Indeed, some of diet pills are helpful in order to weight loss. However, it could gaining the weight and risk to the health. It supposedly to help people who want to weight loss, but it simply do not work to them. Other than that, the diagram used by the writer is quite difficult to understand and need for the concentration whenever to analyze the diagram.

From the reading I found that the writer are not agree with the medical way in order to get nice body shape such as taking the diet pills and I do agree with the write according to that. Moreover, it is some a good approach taken by the writer by putting the strong evidence according to the wrong doing of dieting such as the bulimia nervosa and so on. It is make the readers realize that the side effects of false diet set up and obsesses to achieve the weight loss.