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Jan. 5th, 2005 03:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
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.
