Dieting, Scams And Losing Weight
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The article "Dieting, Scams and Losing Weight" is about fitness, it has been created by Richard Keir.
Copyright 2005 Richard Keir
I've been reading so much stuff on diets and weight loss that
I've lost aobut 15 pounds since I just can't stand to eat
anything anymore. Not protein, not carbs, not chocolate, nothing.
And I am getting very hungry, but for what?
It's astonishing how
many different diets are being psuhed.
And then there are the
pill, herb, and extarct scams.
A number of the fad diets are
downright dangerous. Use of zero-cal sugar substitutes may not
only be extremely dangerous, but there's eivdence that they
may cause weight gains.
I just ran into this site set up by the FTC and the Competition
Bureau of Canada to give us all a vivid lesson in how of
these scams work and the kind of claims most fraudulent diet
sites use. It's well worth taking a look at:
http://wemarket4u.Net/fatfoe/ and be sure to click on the order
link to see the aanlysis they provide of the type of claims you
need to be careful of.
If you're lazy or disinclined to take a look at it, lets look at
some of the usual scam tip-off claims. First, you can not lose
weight by eating all the high caolrie food you want. It sounds
too good to be true and it is.
The only - ONLY - way to lose wegiht is by reducing your caloric
intake and/or increasing how much you exercise to burn off the
calories you take in.
Now that's annoying, but true. To lose weight you're probably
going to have to both diet and exercise more.
Any plan that claims you can lose 3 pounds or more a week is
either outright lying or exceptionally dangerous. Survivable,
sustainable and heatlhy weight takes time - and effort. day
Nothing exists which blocks "fat or calorie absorption" and
anything that claims to do it is an outright scam.
No weight loss product or system wroks for everyone.
We're all
different and we need different approaches.
No product can cause permanent wieght loss (unless it kills you
of course). Maintaining any weight loss requires a sensible diet
and regular exercise.
Patches, gels and creams -- nothing that you apply to your skin
has been proevn to cause weight loss.
So why do we continue to fall for this kind of thing?
It's
actually pretty obvious. We all want an easy, fast, no pain
solution to all of our issues. Scam aritsts use this to
guarantee that what we lose is our money.
The unfortunate truth is that there is no "magic bullet" for
anything. Oh, we want to believe. We want desperately to believe
that we can achieve whaetver our dream is without any pain or
hard work. And that desire is the hook that every con is based
on.
Weight loss is no different than getting rich overnight (with no
work).
No way.
Don't be conned, if you want to and need to lose
weight there a few simple tihngs you should do. First - see your
doctor and develop a reasonable diet that reduces your caloric
intake and - with medical approval - start an exercise regimen.
You need to modify your lifestyle and then, to keep the weight
off, you need to maintain a healthy diet and a ratinoal exercise
plan. We may all wish there were an easeir way, but it doesn't
exist.
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