The internet is always a fountain of information. Since setting my Personalized Google News, it updates me on the latest need-to-know activities worldwide.

It seems that the need to know for May 6, 2006 is the International No Diet Day. I had to do some additional research on this, because clueless me, have never heard before of it before.

Sure enough, here is the 411 on it.....

May 6th is a day to protest against dieting!

Down with the tyranny of thinness!

Give up dieting for one day, and celebrate healthy self-acceptance!

Speak out! Have a picnic! Smash your bathroom scale!

Down with Barbie dolls! Girls need new role models!

Food is not the enemy!

The enemies are the diet and fashion industries!

The enemies are advertising and television!

Let's stop judging ourselves by what the scale says!

Food is meant to be enjoyed!

It's time to say no to the diet mentality!

People come in all shapes and sizes!

Size diversity forever!

In 1992, Mary Evans Young and Diet Breakers planned a no-diet picnic in Hyde Park in London. They asked people to think about whether diets really improve their lives. In 1993, No Diet Day came to the US, and has been celebrated worldwide since then.

In years past, INDD celebrations have included scale smashings, demonstrations, and closet cleanings, where women take the clothes they have been saving "until they got thin", and donate them to shelters.

©2000, Council on Size & Weight Discrimination, Inc. 845-679-1209 www.cswd.org