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Saturday, May 26, 2007
Diets: pathetic success rate
By VictorM: I was flying recently and sat next to an obese woman. During the flight, she ordered a diet coke, munched on something from a bag that said "100 calories snack", and then started reading a magazine with a cover featuring a thin woman inside a very large pair of pants claiming she had lost 130 pounds.The woman next to me, quite elegantly dressed, is so typical of overweight people these days who face the pressure of a society getting fatter but encouraged to be thinner. And of course, where there is a need, vultures will close in:
The pathetic success rate of diets isn't news, but what is groundbreaking is the growing awareness of just how unethical the $34 billion-a-year (some estimate as high as $50 billion) diet industry is... it is not a lack of willpower that is standing between the average American dieter and her perfect body but a corrupt industry that keeps so many of us -- women in particular -- unsatisfied, obsessed and misinformed.I was reminded of the one line from the Sunscreen Speech: Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly. But I didn't say it to her. I had the window seat and she had already taken over the arm rest between us.
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