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Crash diet?

But crash-landing? This means an emergency. The plane has lost control in one way or another and has to fall from the sky like a rock and slam into the ground in order to achieve a full stop – the wreckage being the end result.

Too terribly vivid, I admit.

But you get the picture. A crash course in English is, in the same way, intended as a quick fix. Crash dieting works in the same way – people who go on crash dieting are practically starving themselves in order to see the immediate result.

The immediate result being a 10-kilogram loss in weight in a week or something like that.

Frankly speaking, I cannot see any benefit in a crash diet – two cucumbers during the day and water only during the night, for example – except when perhaps you’re an actress who needs to lose 10-kilos before taking on a movie project next month, in which, I have to explain, you’re supposed to portray a stick think model who starves herself regularly due to peer pressure.

Peer pressure? Pressure from peers, or fellow suffers. All supermodels appear super thin in the magazine and on television anyway, don’t they?

Anyways, my position is this. You don’t need to go on a crash diet every time you enjoy a hefty (it is hefty, I admit) meal of Peking Duck. All you need do is exercise discipline and restraint. That is, if you can eat a whole duck, eat half of it. Or if you can have 20 slices, have 15 or 12 slices per meal from now on.