11. Dieting emphasises food as a reward or compensation - so called 'comfort eating' where food is used to cheer us up or because it's raining we are somehow entitled to eat lots of sweets or cakes.

12. Dieting lowers base metabolic rate which means you can live on less food, so when you return to your normal food intake which was already too high, you put on weight even faster than before and will probably end up heavier than before diet.

13. Dieting does nothing to teach you to eat healthily. Healthy eating does not mean going hungry.

14. Dieting often causes constipation and this concentrates toxins and carcinogens within bowels and they are present for a longer period. Fruit and vegetables have a positively beneficial effect on smooth running of your digestive system.

--THREE-- Don't try to change your lifestyle too quickly. Its better to make steady, permanent changes than it is to cause yourself distress only to fail through demotivation. You can't change habits of a lifetime in a few days so don't try to and don't wait to change your lifestyle until last minute, because that's too late. Finally, medical advances mean that we live longer than before, even with a poor lifestyle, but what's point if most of that "extra time" is ruined by poor health?