Support For No Diet Day

EDM number 1078 in 1994-95, proposed by Alice Mahon on 02/05/1995.

That this House supports International No Diet Day on 6th May, the purpose of which is to draw attention to the perils and futility of dieting, except for medical reasons such as stomach ulcers and diabetes, and to promote a healthier way of living; notes that dieting undermines people's emotional and physical well-being and is often the first step towards more serious eating disorders; condemns the pressure on women and girls, and increasingly on men and boys, to be unhealthily thin; is concerned that dieting has reached epidemic levels; notes that 90 per cent. of women will diet at some time in their lives, and at any given time 50 per cent. of women are dieting, including girls as young as eight and women as old as 75 years; regrets that Western women and girls are starving through dieting when in other parts of the world so many people are dying through starvation; believes that the tyranny of thinness encourages women to be valued on their looks alone and encourages the oppression of fat people as well as causing misinformation on healthy living and eating; realises that, while obesity may cause health risks to some people, the solution is not a simple one of losing weight because 96 per cent. of diets do not work, and dieting causes other problems, including low self-esteem, mood swings, depression, gall stones, lack of concentration, constipation and headaches; and therefore supports International No Diet Day for a better way of living and congratulates Mary Evans Young, Director of Diet Breakers, for her excellent book, Diet Breaking.

This motion has been signed by a total of 90 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Alice Mahon	02/05/1995	Halifax		Proposed
Brian H Donohoe	02/05/1995	Cunninghame South		Signed
Tam Dalyell	02/05/1995	Linlithgow		Signed
Jean Corston	02/05/1995	Bristol East		Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	02/05/1995	Islington North		Signed
Harry Cohen	02/05/1995	Leyton		Signed
Ann Clwyd	02/05/1995	Cynon Valley		Signed
Michael Clapham	02/05/1995	Barnsley West & Penistone		Signed
Malcolm Chisholm	02/05/1995	Edinburgh Leith		Signed
Ronnie Campbell	02/05/1995	Blyth Valley		Signed
Anne Campbell	02/05/1995	Cambridge		Signed
Jimmy Dunnachie	02/05/1995	Glasgow, Pollok		Signed
Derek Fatchett	02/05/1995	Leeds Central		Signed
Maria Fyfe	02/05/1995	Glasgow, Maryhill		Signed
Audrey Wise	02/05/1995	Preston		Signed
Gerry Bermingham	02/05/1995	St Helens South		Signed
John Battle	02/05/1995	Leeds West		Signed
Harry Barnes	02/05/1995	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Tony Banks	02/05/1995	Newham North West		Signed
Hilary Armstrong	02/05/1995	North West Durham		Signed
Peter Hain	02/05/1995	Neath		Signed
Diane Abbott	02/05/1995	Hackney North & Stoke Newington		Signed
Mildred Gordon	02/05/1995	Bow and Poplar		Signed
Neil Gerrard	02/05/1995	Walthamstow		Signed
Bill Olner	02/05/1995	Nuneaton		Signed
Chris Mullin	02/05/1995	Sunderland South		Signed
William McKelvey	02/05/1995	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
Dennis Skinner	02/05/1995	Bolsover		Signed
Alan Simpson	02/05/1995	Nottingham South		Signed
Clare Short	02/05/1995	Birmingham, Ladywood		Signed
Terry Rooney	02/05/1995	Bradford North		Signed
Barbara Roche	02/05/1995	Hornsey & Wood Green		Signed
Gordon Prentice	02/05/1995	Pendle		Signed
Greg Pope	02/05/1995	Hyndburn		Signed
Terry Patchett	02/05/1995	Barnsley East		Signed
Colin Pickthall	02/05/1995	West Lancashire		Signed
Nigel Griffiths	02/05/1995	Edinburgh South		Signed
Llew Smith	02/05/1995	Blaenau Gwent		Signed
Eric Illsley	02/05/1995	Barnsley Central		Signed
Helen Jackson	02/05/1995	Sheffield, Hillsborough		Signed
Jim Marshall	02/05/1995	Leicester South		Signed
John Marek	02/05/1995	Wrexham		Signed
Liz Lynne	02/05/1995	Rochdale		Signed
Eddie Loyden	02/05/1995	Liverpool, Garston		Signed
Ken Livingstone	02/05/1995	Brent East		Signed
Helen Liddell	02/05/1995	Monklands East		Signed
Terry Lewis	02/05/1995	Worsley		Signed
Jane Kennedy	02/05/1995	Liverpool Broadgreen		Signed
Alan Keen	02/05/1995	Feltham & Heston		Signed
Lynne Jones	02/05/1995	Birmingham, Selly Oak		Signed
Martin O'Neill	03/05/1995	Clackmannan		Signed
John Cummings	03/05/1995	Easington		Signed
Jim Dowd	03/05/1995	Lewisham West		Signed
Margaret Ewing	03/05/1995	Moray		Signed
Norman Godman	03/05/1995	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Win Griffiths	03/05/1995	Bridgend		Signed
Janet Anderson	03/05/1995	Rossendale & Darwen		Signed
Hugh Bayley	03/05/1995	York, City of		Signed
John McFall	03/05/1995	Dumbarton		Signed
John McAllion	03/05/1995	Dundee East		Signed
Denis MacShane	03/05/1995	Rotherham		Signed
Peter Pike	03/05/1995	Burnley		Signed
Robert Parry	03/05/1995	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Tom Pendry	03/05/1995	Stalybridge & Hyde		Signed
Raymond Powell	03/05/1995	Ogmore		Signed
Joyce Quin	03/05/1995	Gateshead East		Signed
Ernie Ross	03/05/1995	Dundee West		Signed
Peter Hardy	03/05/1995	Wentworth		Signed
Robert Hughes	03/05/1995	Aberdeen North		Signed
Frank Field	04/05/1995	Birkenhead		Signed
Ian Davidson	04/05/1995	Glasgow, Govan		Signed
Judith Church	04/05/1995	Dagenham		Signed
Roger Berry	05/05/1995	Kingswood		Signed
Paul Flynn	09/05/1995	Newport West		Signed
Andrew Faulds	09/05/1995	Warley East		Signed
Richard Caborn	09/05/1995	Sheffield Central		Signed
Barry Jones	09/05/1995	Alyn & Deeside		Signed
Mike Hall	10/05/1995	Warrington South		Signed
Richard Burden	10/05/1995	Birmingham, Northfield		Signed
Bill Michie	10/05/1995	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Kevin Hughes	10/05/1995	Doncaster North		Signed
William Powell	10/05/1995	Corby		Signed
Max Madden	10/05/1995	Bradford West		Signed
Ann Coffey	11/05/1995	Stockport		Signed
John Denham	11/05/1995	Southampton, Itchen		Signed
Michael Connarty	15/05/1995	Falkirk East		Signed
Nick Harvey	15/05/1995	North Devon		Signed
Joan Ruddock	15/05/1995	Lewisham, Deptford		Signed
Alan Williams	18/05/1995	Swansea West		Signed
Derek Enright	Unknown			Withdrawn

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