Diet Companies Want to Keep You Fat!
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HERE'S WHAT I THINK
Diet Companies Want to Keep You Fat!
When a company or entrepreneur moves into a market, their goal is to find a demographic that will always deliver more revenue. If you solve the root of a problem, and no more consumers emerge - you're out of business!
Diet companies are getting rich off of the fact that most people fail (eventually) on their diet plan. They might succeed for a year even - but nibbling on rabbit food isn't normal, so you quit, gain, and go back to them to hand over more money.
This cycle harms your body (and mind), but fattens their wallets.
They set you up to fail - the fasts, the no-carb, high-carb, liquid, raw and pill diet plans that promise so much but deliver nothing you can use for a lifetime.
Of course, a fraction of their customers WILL keep the weight off forever and won't mind the drudgery of it all. They use THESE lucky few in their ad campaigns to tempt the rest of the diet nation.
Like the tobacco companies, I feel diet companies want you to stay addicted to eating the wrong way - because it's the ONLY way they'll stay afloat!
LINKS TO PROVE MY POINT
- Nutrition Paradox
- What if all of this "Dieting and Eating Healthy" is making us more out of control? Our current food attitudes have resulted in consistently increasing rates of obesity in this country, and around the world---Say No to the Diet Mentality, Forever!"
- Weight Loss: Fact and Fiction
- War on Fat!
- Why Diets Don't Work
- The Myths that Make us Massive
*WHAT'S THAT SMALL PRINT THEY'RE HIDING?
Diet Companies Are Sharks - And They're Hungry for YOU!
Every diet plan - from Jenny Craig to Weight Watchers to Slim Fast and more have that same small font at the bottom of the page or product that says...*Results not typical.
Results not typical? You mean most people WON'T lose weight like you say on the label?
Instead of Valerie Bertinelli touting how she got slim, why not show Jane Doe in Anytown, USA who uses your products, loses a bit at first, and then even gains back MORE?
Oh, I know why...
Because then you'd be in the poor house - right along with the millions of Americans who spend billions of dollars each year on your products that don't deliver the results they claim.
Diet companies are predators - nothing more. They prey on your desperation...on your panic to squeeze into a size 6 at your high school reunion...on the fact that you want to look your very best on your wedding day.
They troll the women's magazines, TV schedules, and grocery aisles to find you - and once their bait of skinny models and false promises gets you to bite, you're doomed.
Don't be a victim anymore!
Say goodbye to diets forever.
Think You're in Control?
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The diet companies control what and how much you eat. And they work hand in hand with food manufacturers - it's an "I'll scratch your back - you scratch mine" deal.
Release Date: 08/28/2007
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Diet Companies Want to Keep You Fat!
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Eat fresh foods, stay off the processed foods, drink less fizzy drinks and alcohol, and into physical activities! It's the best ways!
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Posted August 07, 2008
RawBill says:
I totally agree! The best way to lose weight is to stay away from those large weight loss companies, eat Raw Organic fruit and vegetables and exercise everyday. If you surround yourself with a good support network such as an online forum and have a strong desire to lose weight then it can be done with out these so called DIEts. Live as nature intended!
Posted May 08, 2008
MarniKDean says:
I am right behind you on this one. I am not sure I would go so far as to say it is all a big conspiracy like some do. But it is all about the all might dollah - period! Doctors stay rich when patients stay sick due to bad eating habits. Cancer, heart disease, arthritis cure research stays funded (and uncured, btw) when people stay sick and fat. Diet products sell in the billions annually so who wants to *really* help people lose weight??
The other side of the coin though is - It really comes down to good old fashioned self discipline - you know just like mama used to say - One cookie is enough. Keep your hand outta the jar!
Posted April 18, 2008
Intuitive says:
I'm taking a class in Chinese Medicine and nutrition is taken very seriously as a health issue. Just the other day I learned about how MSG (monosodium glutamate) is used in the food industry everywhere (not just chinese restaurants) to keep people eating something. Meanwhile, MSG literally kills brain cells. That's part of why you feel brain dead after eating junk food.
My point here being, yes, the diet industry is out to make money in underhanded ways. As is most of the rest of the food industry.
My favorite example is this: Recently Curves (the chain of exercise places for women) started a line of "healthy" food products. One of their chocolate granola/energy bars lists shellac as an ingredient.
Posted April 03, 2008
T-Marie says:
If they'd pay me as much as the celebrities that endorse their products, I'd loose the weight, too.
But, instead, they want me to keep coming back buying it over and over and over.
Posted March 28, 2008
Grasshoppa says:
I gotta agree with you on this one. Jenny Craig opened up an office near my home a few years ago... right next to a Baskin Robbins! How's THAT for job security, eh?
Posted March 24, 2008
Home-healthcare says:
Yes, they get us excited, over-zealous, and we lose weight quickly, only to have ruined our metabolism, burned muscle to upset our fat/muscle ratio and further damage our metabolism, damaged health... and the yo-yo continues. Now everything we eat gets stored, so we get fatter faster... and on to another "quick fix" promise of Nirvana in Skinnyland, more money on pills and books and rabbit food and... So we get fat and the diet industry gets fat off of us! Perfect parallel.
Posted March 19, 2008
dean tura says:
Yes victims, we live on hope, and just the same with food
producers. Most fat is a side effect from white sugar anyhow.
From H-Jack
Posted March 17, 2008
archetekt says:
We all have freedom of choice. We can choose to believe the latest fad diet or we can choose to eat less and exercise more. Why choose a diet anyway? Why not just decide to live a healthy lifestyle?
Posted March 16, 2008
No way, Monkeybrain!
Barkely says:
I think many of them try to teach you how to eat healthy, the problem is it's hard to stay away from the chocolate. Chocolate is the evil one!:)
Posted March 25, 2008
famousmortimer says:
I don't agree. Well, I'm sure that some do, but I'd be willing to wager that the majority don't. Diets are schemes, to be sure, and they blow up over night and become immensely popular and the point for them is to make money. I agree with all of this. But the thing that makes get popular is when they work. Just about any diet plan will work if you follow it, which most don't, unless you have health issues causing the weight. But the reason why something like the no-carb thing got so popular a few years back is because a bunch of people tried it and saw really good results. Friends tell friends, the news picks up on it, yada yada yada no-carb diets are all the rage. If it was just a scam to get people to buy certain foods it wouldn't work... people need proof that it works.
When a guy at works comes in and says he lost 25 pounds on the south beach diet, or whatever, it drums up interest in the diet. When the same guy gets tired of the diet and reverts to his old eating habits, the same ones that made him large in the first place... well, he gets fat again. That isn't the diet's fault. That's not because it's some scheme to sell you on something that doesn't work.
Any diet's basic outline is to eat healthier, smaller portions and to exercise more. If you do these things you are golden. There are certain things that work short term or remove pounds quickly at first, but in the end they are all the same. I think the scam is that they know most people won't follow through. Losing weight is difficult, I know first hand. I've failed many diets, but i'm not gonna blame them, I know it's me when i decide to eat like im stocking up for a winter slumber.
Posted March 25, 2008
