Dieting Is Unpleasant

Dieting is unpleasant, let’s face facts. Who in their right mind would purposely deny themselves food, apart from those participating in a religious abstinence?

Yet people diet, day in and day out, in fact it’s more popular than ever, with new miraculous weight-loss products bursting forth at an unprecedented rate.

Dieting is certainly nothing new; the arduous battle between mind and body has been raging for centuries, at the very least. But why do we do it?

Health is the obvious answer and for the clinically obese, it really is a necessity.

There is however, a more disturbing, darker force at play; a master puppeteer, pulling at the strings – the media.

Media heavily influences public conception and all it takes is misguided direction from a cosmetically popular few and suddenly, people who really do not need to lose weight are starving themselves, desperate to squeeze into the elusive and freakish size zero.

People, who were previously termed as overweight in the past, are now labelled as clinically obese by the media. But is this sudden labelling due to genuine concern, or is it manipulative scare tactics, designed to boost the ratings of the new craze of fat camp reality TV?

Or am I being paranoid?!

For certain, diet systems and the new breed of internet-qualified nutritionists that accompany any weight-loss fad, have multiplied tenfold over the last few years.

Dieting and weight-loss is now a multi-billion dollar industry and looks a firm favourite to continue its explosive growth in the near future.

But who do you trust? It seems that a new diet programme is suddenly hailed as a modern miracle and advertised with vengence, only to hit the headlines the following month for all the wrong reasons. Real scientists do real research and discover that this new weight loss miracle is actually a serious health risk. Atkins anyone?!

There are genuinely good diet products and weight loss systems around today and some of the techniques being marketed are scientifically sound. The best approach is to conduct thorough research, don't just believe the word or a marketer of salesperson, do your own research and keep an open mind.

Search the internet, Google the name of the product or programme that has caught your attention and check out numerous independent sources. Ask around, ask your friends, even better join a non-biased independent diet forum and post a question. You're more likely to get an honest, truthful answer.

Don't take the word of the media or advertisers as gospel truth. They have one motive - sales = revenue. Remember the old saying:

"If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is!"

Written By 

Darren Gray