A Good Website

http://www.webmd.com/diet/default.htm

I think this is an example of good websites. This website is operated by WebMD.
This website does not have advertisement at all, and the web page is fairly organized, and easy to see.  In this website, there are all kinds of information about healthy foods, and healthy ways of diets. It does not force the inappropriate and unhealthy diets.

A bad website

I think this website is also bad one.
http://www.lesenfants-lefilm.com/howto10kg.html

There is no information about the author of this wabsite, and a date of publication is not mentioned, too.  There are some grammatical errors.
I think the author present a limited perspective because there is no xternal evidence supporting the author's claim and the facts written on it seem not to be correct. It recommend fasting diet or diet shakes, and the author suggest we can lose 10kg in a short term. I think it's too dangerous.
Some links are listed on the website, but almost all of them are advertisement of diet products. I think hey want us to buy their products.

A Bad Website

http://wpets.jp/product/detail/474

This website has been operated by Stepworld Co.,Ltd. since 2003. Here it advertises the beauty good, supplements and dieting foods. The reason that I thought this website is an example of bad websites is because, first of all, the web page is not organized; there are too much of advertisements appealing everywhere, and the pictures used for before after, are obviously Photoshop processed (only the ones used for “after.”). Also, since it is a website which sells merchandise, the price should be clearly stated; however, it does not show up until I drag it down to the very bottom of the website. There are users’ comments towards this dieting drink sold here, but we never know if it is true because there is no space for the users to actually post comments on this website. The worst thing about this website is that it leads an inappropriate and unhealthy diet by creating advertisement which makes the viewer believe as though it is rapidly effective shortly while we know it is not. 

A good website

I think this website is good to know what you should eat or whether your diet is appropriate or not.

http://package.toppan.co.jp/shokuiku/

The website was found in 2006, and the publisher of the website is Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. It was adopted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan. The mission of the publisher is to spread about what is a well-balanced diet and to promote food education for children. The publisher provide contact information, you can contact them clicking  "お問い合わせ" at the bottom of the website. They provide data or sources to support their opinions, for example, they show some figures about Japanese food guide spinning top which was decided by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The information on this website seems to be correct because the website was adopted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in 2006, which is one of Japanese governmental institutions. So I think it is good with accuracy. There is no spelling or grammatical errors on the website, and it is written in easy Japanese so that children can understand.

Healthy diets from various perspectives -- A doctor

I want to introduce another perspective. He is a doctor and he teaches some classes related to medicine at university. I’m taking his class, so I summarize his opinion from the medical point of view.

 

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Recently, we get too much information about diet through the Internet, TV program, and so on. I think some of them believe all of them, so I’m very sorry that many of the information introduced on them are wrong. For example, diets which keep eating one type of food every day are dangerous because it is nutritionally unbalanced and keeping your health good becomes difficult. I declare that there is no food that makes your weight lose if you keep eating one food. The best way to stay healthy is eating various kinds of food.

I think media sometimes give us information about diet in order to earn money by advertising particular food or products.

Real meaning of the word “diet” is to be healthy, not to lose weight. If someone whose weight is too light tries to gain weight, it is also “diet”. I really want to tell you that if you are thin and overweight, you are more likely to contract a disease. And, according to some researches, the possibility that thin people like fashion models contact a disease is much higher than people whose weight is standard. So, please think about what is the most important thing to you. If you want to be healthy and to live longer, don’t be particular to lose weight.

Healthy diets from various perspectives -- A representative of the diet foods company’s advertisement post

When talking about diets, diet foods cannot be ignored. As we see the TV commercial, varieties of diet foods are going around nowadays such as protein shakes, enzyme drinks, some sort of jellies and so on… The commercial the dieting products companies make all seem very attractive, and make the consumers feel like products will give immediate and dramatic effects. However, are they really so? Are they really giving you the effects they show on the commercial or advertisement? Let me assume that the speech below is by a representative of the diet foods company’s advertisement post.



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     Hello, I am a representative of one of the diet foods companies’ advertisement post. We are producing effective diet foods for dieters. Unlike USA or other countries in the west, Japanese people believe slender as the virtue, and we know most of them are young women. Therefore, by consider what young woman would prefer, we finally decided to produce dieting protein shakes and jellies. I know young women love sweets, and they want to be conscious of “being women” all the time.

However, for actually selling the products, the advertisement takes the most important role. We have to create the attractive commercial on TV and the internet. The most effective way is to show before and after, and dramatically introduce the dietetically effective ingredients in the products. Of course, we choose the before after which had changed the most, even though it does not mean everyone could change the same; but what is the problem if we say “there are individual differences?” We are not lying. 

Healthy diets from various perspectives -- A obesity woman

     It is sometimes said that obesity is genetic, but some people get fat because of thier mental state. I'll introduce an opinion of a girl who is diagnosed as corpulence. Her story was broadcasted on Japanese TV program " the sekai gyoten news." After all, she successed diet, but I summarized her story only when she was suffering from obesity.
http://www.ntv.co.jp/gyoten/oa/130213/03.html


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     I’ve loved eating since I was little, and my favorite is Chinese food used a lot of oil. When I was 16, I gave birth to a baby boy but I became a single mother because I couldn’t get along with my husband. I had a lot of things to do then, for example: part-time job, going to high school, taking care of my baby, and so on. Actually, I was always tired and got stressed. I felt relieved only when I am eating fatty food. My weight was getting heavier and heavier, but I didn’t care. Then, I’ve thought that “I know that obesity is not good for my health, and that I have to control my diet to be healthy. But I want to eat what I love until I’m satisfied. I only get one life, so I want to spend happy time eating them. I certainly feel happy when I’m eating. Is it bad thing? I don’t think so. I understand there is a possibility that I cannot live long because of obesity, but yet, if so, I won’t regret.”

     My family and friends became worried about my health because my weight reached over 200kg, so I started going on a diet. I tried to eat a lot of vegetables and not to eat fatty or sweet food. But I’ve gained all the weight back because I felt stress of not being able to eat what I love.

Healthy diets from various perspectives -- A perspective from a girl with anorexia

There are many girls on diets while they do not need to, and by unnecessary diets, some of them might fall into eating disorder.  This speech below is from the perspective of an 18-year old girl who has been trying to lose her weight by not eating enough, and has finally made herself anorexia.

     Here is an interesting video to give you the basic idea of what anorexia is.

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I have been on diet for 3 years, and now I am suffering from anorexia. When I was 15 years old, I was feeling uncomfortable being “fat.” Back then, my height was 155cm, and I weighed 47kg with BMI of 19.6. Now, I know it is normal or even less than standard. However, my friends around me were all skinny, and the models in the fashion magazines I was reading were so pretty. That had made me think the way that skinnier is better, and only being skinny like models is a fine virtue. I became very sensitive about how others see me, and started to think as though I was the ugliest person in the whole world.

My eating habits back then, was quite normal; not eating much of sweets or snacks. However, I was thinking that eating is directly causing gaining weight, which is not true. Since I did not have enough knowledge, I quit eating breakfast, then soon after, lunch and dinner. I was kind of happy seeing my weight on the scale dropping dramatically, somehow. I could not stop any more, and eventually I came to where my body and brain refuse any foods; I was not able to keep food down any more. I was in the middle of 17 this time, and my weight was only 28kg. How miracle I was still alive.

Finally, with passionate persuasion of my parents and friends, I started to take a physical and mental counseling at the hospital. I was diagnosed as anorexia. Now, I am able to eat little by little, but my internal organs which had been damaged by anorexia over years, could never be cured completely.