Life is about balance. When things are out of balance, we do not benefit, and starving is definitely an out-of-balance behavior. You can appear to benefit from starving but eventually you’ll pay for indulgences and extreme acts. Starving is not sustainable: you can’t keep doing it long enough to lose weight, especially not safely.
Consider that animals and the animal kingdom instinctively balance the components of their lives – most do not eat too much or too little (assuming food is available) and they don’t engage in extreme behaviors like gorging or starving. The weight of most animals stays within a much smaller margin than humans. This is especially true for wild animals. Domesticated animals tend to adopt habits of the owners that feed them.
Until a few decades ago humans used to be within a more narrow range of weight just as wild animals are. Taste engineered products and fattening 
enticements from greedy corporations have caused human consumers to behave in extreme ways regarding food. These extreme eating behaviors are getting worse – corporations making taste engineered food are creating a worldwide obesity epidemic that is growing unabated.
"Mixed advertising messages that flash images of perfect bodies intermingled with advertisements for taste engineered food can make anyone confused. Both types of messages are far from reality. Models shouldn’t be that skinny and manufactured food shouldn’t be as fattening, unhealthy and at the same time addicting.
Today's media promotes the confusion by glamorizing body and food images to increase profits. Mixed messages are displayed next to each other on televisions and in magazines. Thin celebrities are even used to advertise taste engineered foods. It is exactly these images that cause us to behave in extreme ways. All of the desperate starving periods or cheating episodes can probably be linked to ¬unrealistic images of ideal bodies or memories of food with addictive qualities. Your grandparents and ancestors probably never behaved in such extreme ways regarding food. Then again they did not have today’s taste engineered food ads like we do.
