The Kindness Diet [TheAtlantic.com]

Samantha Sangenito 1/8/154:00 AM

The greatest aphrodisiac, according to pop culture, is to be told never to change. Everyone from Bobby Vinton to Billy Joel to Bruno Mars loves you just the way you are. To the guy with the giant index cards, Keira Knightley was perfect. Kanye West, responding to the Internet breakage caused by his wife's prodigious posterior, tweeted in affirmation: #Allday.

Real life is not always this body-positive. But a study recently published in the journal Personal Relationships suggests that, for women who do want to lose weight, hearing these types of accepting messages can lead to better success in dieting than being surrounded by people who point out their need to lose weight.

[For more of this story, written by Olga Khazan, go to http://www.theatlantic.com/hea...indness-diet/384070/]

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