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New Test Helps Dieters Lose Food Hang-ups and Unwanted Pounds
Added: (Sun Jul 30 2006)
Anti-dieting charity The Weight Foundation has released a free self-test questionnaire to help dieters analyse their behaviour towards food and eating.
The nonprofit researches long-term dieting and develops strategies for lasting and natural weight control.
Detailed interviews with over 500 persistent dieters has allowed the creation of a greatly enhanced version of its Hardcore Dieting Index self-diagnostic tool.
The Mancheste-based organisation has developed its own categorization of what it calls Hardcore Dieters – people whose lives are dominated by eating and self-image issues. Its detailed questionnaire, which is a product of 4 years of international research, allows long-term dieters to pinpoint their own habits.
“Far too many people suffer miserable lives divorced from a relaxed relationship with food and eating. The key to lasting weight control is not persistent dieting but rather holding food only as a necessary tool of life, not one's master,” says The Weight Foundation's founder and secretary Malcolm Evans, 46.
“By making this new tool freely available to everyone on our website we hope many dieters will take their first permanent steps to shedding both their eating hang-ups and quite a few unwanted pounds.”
The Hardcore Dieting Index, now generally available for the first time, can be found at http://www.weightfoundation.com