Buy Walking VideosUnproven Diet Pills
I don’t like to give bad reviews. I prefer to find something else positive to talk about instead. There is so much to write about, you really don’t need to hear me talking negatively about a product that is trying to do some good in the world and just doesn’t do it good enough for me.
When I see articles like this, however, I want to scream to the whole world:
This article talks about a survey with startling statistics:
“70 percent of Americans who are trying to lose weight are following their own diet plans and have no interest in seeking a doctor’s help.”
I can understand that. I have received HORRIBLE advice from general practitioners about diet and nutrition, so I can see why most of us are trying our own diet plan. This statistic surprised me, though.
“One-third have tried dietary supplements of unproven benefit — pills and powders that promise to burn fat, boost metabolism or melt pounds without the sweaty hard work of exercise or the discipline and deprivation of diets.”
One-third?! Thirty-three percent?! Even if it was ten percent, that would be far too many people trying products that have no proven benefit. No matter what they promise you, don’t spend your money on that junk. One-third is a HUGE amount of people! Even if each person only spent a dollar, it would amount to 100 million bucks! No wonder my email box is filled with spam trying to promise me magical weight loss! No wonder Starling Fitness comments are regularly vandalized by comment spam trying to get YOU to buy magical weight loss! Even if only 33% of you respond, that’s a major profit.
Don’t do it!
I know you’re tempted right now. Halloween just passed us by and Thanksgiving is right around the corner. After that, there is the month-long binge of Christmas to survive. Buying a bottle of pills that promise to boost your metabolism or burn fat while you sleep is really enticing, but don’t do it. Eating healthy during this time of the year is the best Christmas present you can give yourself. Plan for it now and you’ll be able to afford it by then.
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November 8th, 2006 at 6:48 am
This is the worst part, as far as I’m concerned:
“Supplement users tended to be female (45 percent vs. 20 percent of males), obese rather than just overweight, and more likely to have annual household incomes of less than $40,000.
“Supplements often are used by low-income people ‘who can less afford to waste their money on products that don’t work,’ Shiffman said.”
So people are spending their hard-earned cash on pills when they could save their money, stop buying processed food, and go for walks instead.
November 8th, 2006 at 8:25 am
AMEN Sister!
November 8th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
It’s sad they rip people off can less afford to waste their money on products that don’t work.
I think there should be a law that has supplments have a warnning not FDA aproved and in some cases say why it’s not aproved.