Article at alternet...

[conuly]

Here.

It reminds me of an ad for a diet pill I saw the other day while watching... something. Maybe Futurama. Real ad, though. They kept going on and on about how this pill was "medically proven" to help you lose weight with "no lifestyle changes". You could keep eating as much of whatever you liked, and exercise as little as you pleased, and lose weight.

The thought sickened me. People in this country spend a ridiculous amount of money on food, more money on diet foods, and more money losing weight, and even in this country there's people who go to bed hungry. It's disgusing, and wasteful, and here was an ad saying that you could lose weight and still eat as much food as you liked, food that apparently wouldn't even be put to good use within your body.

And there's my thought for the day. Djusk' a.

Comments

[davidkevin.livejournal.com]

Cable t.v....[ sigh ]. The ad is bullshit-with-a-capital-B; no diet will work alone without "lifestyle changes".

I'm sure I've seen it; it's probably one of the Cortislim clones rather than Cortislim itself -- the guy who pushes that is smart enough to say that you need more than just his product, even if it works.

Fie on all of 'em.

[conuly]

Oh, I know it's bullshit. The premise behind it still is sickening.

[amarafox.livejournal.com]

I discovered a great trick for weight loss. Eat less junk food. Exercise more. It worked for me :D

[conuly]

That's just crazy talk.

[deceptica]

Nice article. I doubt that putting things like "so and so many died of starvation and malnutrition yesterday" into the headlines every day would have the effect the author predicts, though. At first, yes, but I think eventually people would simply tire of it. Heck, I'm already growing tired of hearing about nothing but the tsunami on tv, as bad as that may sound. People can care about the lives of strangers, but not all the time.

[conuly]

I think the point is that this is a tragedy that is easily preventable, and no attention gets paid to it, nobody seems to care.

[davidkevin.livejournal.com]

Cable t.v....[ sigh ]. The ad is bullshit-with-a-capital-B; no diet will work alone without "lifestyle changes".

I'm sure I've seen it; it's probably one of the Cortislim clones rather than Cortislim itself -- the guy who pushes that is smart enough to say that you need more than just his product, even if it works.

Fie on all of 'em.

[conuly]

Oh, I know it's bullshit. The premise behind it still is sickening.

[amarafox.livejournal.com]

I discovered a great trick for weight loss. Eat less junk food. Exercise more. It worked for me :D

[conuly]

That's just crazy talk.

[deceptica]

Nice article. I doubt that putting things like "so and so many died of starvation and malnutrition yesterday" into the headlines every day would have the effect the author predicts, though. At first, yes, but I think eventually people would simply tire of it. Heck, I'm already growing tired of hearing about nothing but the tsunami on tv, as bad as that may sound. People can care about the lives of strangers, but not all the time.

[conuly]

I think the point is that this is a tragedy that is easily preventable, and no attention gets paid to it, nobody seems to care.