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I was surprised when an article about the history of diets pointed William the Conqueror (who later became the King of England) as the first documented case of dieting when he started to drink alcohol instead of taking in food after not being able to ride a horse because he was getting heavy. Generations passed, what the King of England did had been influential, not because he was the king and sovereign but because he lost weight and losing weight had now been the trend.

After William the Conqueror, there are still some individuals, women at that matter, who exhibited dieting leading to have been diagnosed having compulsions and eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia nervosa. In a generation where curvy and voluptuous women are the bang, Mary, Queen of Scots had a considerable weight loss and experienced diarrhea and vomiting - the primary symptoms of anorexia. Even St. Catherine of Sienna who, in the height of her fanaticism to Jesus, had (miraculously, they say) lost appetite to eat food. Contemporarily, celebrities like Mary Kate Olsen and Nicole Richie had also struggled to shed off weight which made them a bit scraggy for some time.

There are reasons why people want to lose weight - either to get public attention and to please everyone and for health reasons like preventing hypertension and other diseases. People do it in different ways: some people drink alcohol just like what William the Conqueror did, some are vegetarians, some are vegans, some only gulp energy drinks and water and some eat meat in raw. While there are some people, who took the most distorted and the most disgusting (people say) to lose weight.

TISSUE PAPER DIET

Yes, you heard me right. Tissue papers had been the diet trend for one celebrity who confessed and some of the slender girls in the modeling world who tried so hard to keep themselves thin to fit designer clothes. Psychiatrists call this identical condition as pica, a compulsion to eat non-nutritive things such as paper, plants, metals, soap, ashes and other inedible objects. However, people who eats tissue paper because of severe desperation to lose weight should be differentiated with people who suffer from pica, for the intentions are distinguishable. People with pica eat tissue papers because they have the appetite to, not because they want to lose weight.

What do tissue papers are made of? They are made of tree pulps which are generally of plant cellulose digestible by animals and humans. Eating tissue paper is not bad, but it is not advisable either. The actress Billie Piper, after hearing someone from the audience call her fat, had gone through voluntary starvation for five days and pushing tissue papers inside her throat just not to feel hungry. She admitted she nearly choked after eating a ball of those tissue papers. Some women in the modeling industry also admitted they do the same just to stay in shape without feeling hungry.

TAPEWORM DIET

Maria Callas, one of the most renowned opera singer in the 1920s, had revolutionized dieting in the early part of the 20th century. Originally 210 pounds, she weighed down up to 144 pounds. Her secret - a cestoda, a parasitic flatworm commonly known as tapeworms. Since the early 20th century, fad diets like tapeworms have been in different ads and were (unfortunately) tested by different people all over America. The process starts with ingesting a tapeworm from animals like cows and allowing them to live in intestinal tracts for some quite a time, usually in months. These parasites consume a significant amount of the food you eat and secretes protein which makes our digestion less efficient. The end point, it will leave you eating more but still losing weight.

However, tapeworm diet have been banned in the United States including the import and selling of tapeworms. Experts say that the ingested worms are harmful once it grow bigger. For one, it lays eggs which can scatter to the whole body including the brain. People who were into tapeworm diet reported diarrhea, abdominal pains, depression and psychosis. If people call these effects very "minor" on the part of the hosts, well, I don't think so.

With celebrities setting the trend, fad diets are a big bang nowadays. The dilemma is always between losing weight fast through surgeries or fast diets, or making sure that we don't sacrifice our health but patiently wait for a couple of months. Both have consequences, and both have risks. But we can always make a better choice.

Two Weeks Since My Last Confession by Kate Genovese

Two Weeks Since My Last Confession is a novel by Kate Genovese. It is a family saga, featuring the O’Briens from Boston, Massachusetts. On the face of things, the O’Briens are an upstanding pillar of the community. John O’Brien is a politician, a senator no less, and a respected and long term incumbent to boot. Marie, Mrs. O’Brien, is a devout Catholic with five children. She is determined that they should be raised in such a way that ensures they develop values and respect rules. She fails.

The story centres on two siblings of the O’Brien household, and sets their stories in parallel, spanning three decades up to the 1980s. Molly and Sean are separated by several years, Sean being the older. Molly is the more impetuous of the two, Sean, in his own way, the less predictable. Things at home turn very sour indeed when Molly claims she is sexually abused by her brother. She complains to her mother, who blames her daughter for raising such ideas in the hothouse of her over-active imagination. She tells her father, who seems to be equally dismissive, being always more interested in the preservation of his own privilege and public face. It is only a long time later that she learns her father did, indeed, speak to Sean. They are words that the boy resents, for he has no recollection of having done anything.

Essentially, Two Weeks Since My Last Confession deals with the on-going consequences of these reactions which, at the time, were generated for merely rational reasons, their intended consequences designed to heal rather than harm. Events are described from the individual perspectives of the two children, Molly and Sean.

On the surface a devout Roman Catholic nuclear group, the O’Briens in reality are shot through with tension, hypocrisy, deceit and, indeed, corruption. They are perhaps a fairly standard family beneath the sheen of respect. When the lad misbehaves, his senator father pulls strings so that nothing will come of the issue and, importantly, there will be no record kept. The senator, himself, is a rampant womanizer and two timer, his clearly unhappy wife thus trapped in a marriage her religion would never contemplate ending. Sean gets up to some pretty naughty things before, during and after his tour of duty in Vietnam, but the experience of war does change him, so that his life is transformed. As he matures, he begins to understand and come to terms with the origin of the psychological demons that have haunted him since boyhood.

But it is Molly, more formally Maureen Bridget whenever her mother scolds her, who provides the centrepiece of the story. Her life is a tale of deterioration, a personal tragedy that affects all around her.

In Bobby Angelo, she finds a perfect boyfriend at an age when she is just too young to convince others her feelings are sincere. She develops an early, rich, sexual relationship with Bobby, who seems to be a likeable boy of Italian descent. He is convinced he is destined for stardom as a baseball player and somehow it just doesn’t work out with Molly.

In fact, it actually worked out a little too well with Molly, but he is ignorant of this when he goes off to college. Molly is thus prevented from attending college herself and she takes up a career in health care. She has already smoked dope, as have most of her peers, and she has tried a few other things. Her professional activities facilitate her access to drugs, of course, and she begins to try something different, and then a little more, and a little more still. And so she drifts into a destitution of addiction. But it is a state that allows her to continue a semblance of a normal life for many years.

The book describes the history of the whole family, however, in order to fill out details of the two principal characters’ lives. There are marriages and births – sometimes in that order, some more marriages, plenty of divorces, more births, domestic abuse, success, wealth, failure. There are breakdowns, rehab centres, a Vietnam War and pop culture. And so the characters inhabit a confused two decades to emerge older, wiser perhaps, more stable perhaps, certainly awaiting what life will throw at them next.

Ultimately, the book is an examination of abuse and its consequences, both direct and incidental. The childhood traumas that centred on Molly and Sean resurface, demand attention, regularly reassert their control of lives. They have been denied. They will not go away. And again ultimately the book has a message of hope, as the skeletons in the cupboard are eventually brought out into daylight and positively buried.

Life can be a messy process, with events becoming confused, subconsciously rejected or unacknowledged. But things do catch up with you in the end. The mistakes are truly easy to make, but unpicking their consequences can be an intricate, delicate and lengthy task.

About the Author

Philip Spires
Author of Mission, an African novel set in Kenya
http://www.philipspires.co.uk
Michael, a missionary priest, has just killed Munyasya. It was an accident, but Mulonzya, a politician, exploits the tragedy for his own ends. Boniface, a church worker, has just lost his child. He did not make it to the hospital in time, possibly because Michael went to the Mission to retrieve a letter from Janet, a teacher, and the priest’s neighbour. It is Munyasya who has the last laugh, however.

Why do you think Mary Kate Olsen won't talk to investigators about the illegal pain killers?

The anti-anxiety drugs and sleeping pills and hydrocodone or oxycontin in combination killed Heath Ledger and the masseuse called Mary Kate Olsen several times right when she found his body.

i don't know but its verrrry suspicious to me. everything about this from her calling the security team instead of the police to the asking for immunity is just fishy! but i have a bad feeling about this. i don't think this is gonna end well at all...

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