I've been reading about the death of newspapers and of the media as we know it. The women's magazines I used to work before I left to teach The Food Philosophy are all laying off staff in their hundreds. Sales are down on all print media and it's because all the information reported is available for free online.
The death of newspapers, however, certainly doesn't mean the death of news! What's happening is a Godsend for all of us because the Internet means that the public is now taking control and choosing what it wants to read, listen to, talk about. This is fantastic because giant corporations that used to control the media will no longer have the power that they had and this will give us all a chance to free ourselves from being directed and coerced into thinking the way they want us to think.
What will this mean for overeaters? It will mean more chance of being free, simply because the advice and information available through the traditional media is faulty and designed to create a consumer and not to cure you of your problem. The Internet will allow people who have become enlightened to what is happening to them to talk together and to share their own stories and this will create a change in the way the whole problem is viewed.
The monopoly of the giant diet and fitness corporations (the most successful failed businesses in the world!) is going to come to an end.
This might be a long way off yet - as the TV is still monopolised by the diet message and as long as this is happening people will continue to be duped into thinking that dieting or healthy eating in order to lose weight (trying to cure a physical side effect of a psychological problem) is the only answer - when it's really the cause. Also, GPs, nutritionists, 'health experts' and the Government are still perpetuating the problem through their ignorance (and sometimes through their greed).
People will continue to go round and round in circles, attempting food restriction and overeating, attempting food restriction and overeating.
So it will take time before the truth, where overeating is concerned, will become the normal way of thinking.
But the structure that holds the diet message up there is weakening. This is the beginning of the end for the diet industry and the start of a whole new way of thinking.
That's something to celebrate. Surely?
