My
mother used to say she just wanted a magic pill to help her loose weight. As much as we would all love a magic pill,
the reality is – the only way to loose weight is through a balanced approach of
diet and exercise. This is not the news
that so many of us long to hear.
As
I turned on the television today the morning talk shows were excitedly announcing the
news headline, A Big break through….the next diet wonder pill! Really?
It
turns out this huge news for dieters is the release of a new pill called
Contrave. The news report went on the
say that Contrave is only for individuals with a BMI of 30 or over, and studies
showed patients who took this drug only lost about 5% of total body weight. Not only that, but there are serious side
effects including high blood pressure and even heart attacks. I don’t think a heart attack is worth it for a
few pounds.
According
to ABC News, there are 100 million dieters spending over $20 Billion for the
elusive prize of weight loss[1],
sadly with all that money the results are dismal. Forbes magazine reported that two-thirds of American dieters regained all the weight they had
lost within a year, and 97 percent had gained it all back within five years[2]. It doesn’t take an economist to know that
this is not a sound investment.
One of the biggest problems is that
we live in a fast-paced, fast food, microwave world. We like shortcuts; we want everything
instantly. A healthy diet and exercise
program will not work that quickly, the pounds won’t just drop off overnight,
and our society does not like to wait around for anything.
So we waste billions of dollars
looking for the short cut. The more we diet, the
fatter we seem to get. Some dieters even
go to the extreme levels of intervention.
Over 200,000 morbidly obese individuals resorted to the extreme weight
loss method of bariatric surgery in the last year alone. Sadly even those folks have a high rate of
regaining the weight. The long-term
results are dismal.
Unfortunately
the only ones who are seeing results from the diet industry are the celebrities
who endorse diet products, in some cases they have earned up to $3
million.
If
I had a magic Jeannie I would ask her to make all the extra fat go away, but I
will NOT take dangerous diet pills – and neither should anyone else, they are
NOT magic! Eating right and exercising
are the real magic, but it takes so darn long.
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