Thursday, June 16 2005 19:46 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Have you too joined the " Wanna be beautiful" race? Then its no wonder, if you might get scared, even to take your breakfast, if your morning newspaper carried half of its ads on some diet specialist, who made weight a nightmare to certain section of people.

Dieting is one of those things that are completely integrated into beauty culture. On any given day, a huge portion of the look concern is "on a diet" and "counting calories in one way or another.

What is Dieting? It is nothing but the practice or habit of eating and drinking in a regulated fashion, usually with the aim of losing weight. It is also used in some cases to gain weight or to regulate the amounts of certain nutrients entering the body. It usually involves a non-traditional diet.

A traditional diet is a diet that was considered normal in a given location prior to the advent of industrial agriculture and the general availability of fresh foreign food; the term may refer to diet of native population.

The term is derived from Medieval Latin dietas, and ultimately comes from the Latin dies, "day." You might have read about some politicians on Diet, but have come cross the relationship between politics and Diet? Interestingly, in politics, a Diet is a formal Deliberative Assembly! The word came to be used in this sense because these assemblies met on a daily basis (go back to the Latin origin).

Part II - The concept of the Body Mass Index