This weekend I was running some errands with my mom and we stopped at the Vitamin Shoppe to pick up a bottle of your basic One A Day vitamins. I rarely find myself at the Vitamin Shoppe so whenever I go I like to peruse around a bit. There are all sorts of obscure remedies and supplements for almost any need. However, the thing I remember most was a pamphlet in the weight management section. It was promoting a newly developed diet that has some very shocking guidelines. You are only allowed to have white fish, a few steamed vegetables, steel cut oatmeal, and a small quantity of low-fat cheese. To make things even worse, every morning you have to stick a half-inch needle into your stomach and inject yourself with a hormone designed to quicken the metabolism of pregnant women. That contends as one of the most creepy, unnatural things I've heard in my life. However, the thing that I found most troubling was the warning to participants to stop the diet after forty-five days. That's blatantly saying that the diet will hurt you after a certain amount of time. Plus, after the forty-five days, people on this diet will probably revert to their old bad habits and gain back any weight they lost. A change in lifestyle is the real key to losing weight and keeping it off, but alot of people just don't want to recognize that. I'm really quite curious about how these deranged "fad diets" originated. When and why do you think they came to be? Is their existence evidence of a change in American lifestyle over the past few decades? What does the future hold for "fad diets"? Why are they so appealing to people? Or anything else you want to say.
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I think that many people are resorting to fad diets, because American culture, really is not always the healthiest and people don't want to change their routines. I agree with you that the key to losing weight is just a change in lifestlye. It's all about moderation and exercise and I think a lot of people have trouble realizing that. These fad diets and diets like the Atkins or South Beach diet make people think that they'll lose weight if they completely give up carbs or meat or whatever. But that's not the case. Once they lose the weight, they'll almost always gain the weight back if they haven't changed their lifestyle. And another scary thing about all those diet pills out there is that many are not approved by the FDA so who knows what you could be taking in those pills? Most of them are probably just scams to get your money. But people go for them anyway because they're just looking for a quick way out, and sometimes that's not always the best thing to do.
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