People will try almost anything to lose weight. On the radio this morning there was an ad for a diet shake that will supress your appetite. There is always some new diet shake, pill, tea, or strange procedure to help with weight lose. When are people going to stop wasting their money and just exercise and eat healthily?
"North Americans spend $50 billion a year on pills, potions, diets and programs promising nothing short of miraculous weight loss. Many of them are nonsense, according to an editorial in this week's Canadian Medical Association Journal."
'The majority of commercial weight-loss providers manipulate vulnerable consumers with impunity, cultivating unrealistic expectations and false beliefs.
" Vulnerable consumer" is the key word. I had a friend who spent lots of money at a clinic that hooked her up to electrodes, which were suppose to melt the fat off her. When I told her that it was a waste of money and would not work, she proceeded to tell me that I wouldn't understand because I wasn't fat. I will certainly agree with that, I don't know what's it's like to be fat. But what I did understand was that she should stop eating at Popeye's, and that might help! Unfortunately people will always be duped by the latest diet "craze".
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