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It
is with horror that I have been observing what’s
happening to people as they pursue the perfect body, both
in and out of Pakistan. The latest trends in dieting seem
to be designed to inflict as much punishment on the human
body as possible: you can follow the Atkins diet, where
you must eat all proteins and no carbohydrates. This means
you can go on holiday and load your breakfast plate with
eggs, sausages, and all sorts of sweetbreads, but will
probably be checking into the coronary unit by evening
time.
Let’s not forget the impact
that cutting out carbohydrates can have on your mental
well-being: you will lose the sense of relaxation and
happiness that carbohydrates give you and instead become
nasty, snarling, and bad-tempered, but very, very thin.
In case this appeals to you, consider carefully the case
of an athlete who followed a high-protein diet, suffered
an uncontrollable attack of rage, beat up three people
and crashed his car, and finally had to be both jailed
and hospitalized to get his body fat levels back to normal
again.
On the other hand, if you really can’t
bear to give up your desserts and pastas, you can always
opt for surgical intervention and have all your body fat
liposuctioned out. In this case, you start by checking
into the hospital, endure an unspeakable amount of gruesome
torture with scalpels, vacuums, and other medical devices,
and then go off on holiday to show off your newly sculpted
body, if you survive the anesthesia, the pain following
the surgery, and the shock of seeing yourself covered
in multicolored bruises and swellings directly after the
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