The FTC has fined the makers of Sensa weight loss products for misleading ads. I don't know about you, but I am shocked! Just shocked that a company whose only purpose is to make money feeding on our fears used misleading and flawed research, paid shills,and made outrageous claims that somehow their product was different, and that I could eat anything and any amount without exercise!
Seriously, this is the annual fining of an industry that while it gets fines, the products are still sold. This is not truly stopping anything. This is where the pervasive food nannies should be focusing their vitriol and regulations. They should be focusing on an industry that prays on fear, self-loathing, and that causes real damage. The diet industry is one of the biggest money makers for big pharma and will not gently into that goodnight, but as long as they keep getting fines which in the long run are just slaps on the wrist, this will be an annual token event with the FTC.
Every January,they go after the diet industry and their ads, but yet more ads keep coming, more product clutters shelves and each one promises self-esteem in a pill. Most of the time, they work for a short while, then they don't. Some result in death, for others, the damage is so great, death would have been a blessing.
The truth is, being thin is not self-esteem, not is it always equal to healthy. Self-esteem can be had at any size, but you have to work at it. YOU have to put in the time, the effort, the work. It's not easy. It's not meant to be. Yes, if you find some form of exercise you enjoy, it is less perceived work, but it is still work. It is work to try to eat better and not slide, it is constant, it is painful, it is very hard at times, but it is worth doing. There is no magic bullet folks, sorry to say. You need to put in the work. Start small, and work your way up. That's it. That's all. No pill is going to help you become you. Only you can do that. Only you can accept yourself for who you are or change what you don't want to accept, and only you can put in the work.
So, don't give the FTC a reason to fine these companies. Let's do this the right and hard way, and put these companies out of our lives. Forever.
YOU are worthwhile. YOU are wonderful. YOU are YOU, and that is the best thing in the world to be, no matter what you look like. Embrace it, own it, be it.
Seriously, this is the annual fining of an industry that while it gets fines, the products are still sold. This is not truly stopping anything. This is where the pervasive food nannies should be focusing their vitriol and regulations. They should be focusing on an industry that prays on fear, self-loathing, and that causes real damage. The diet industry is one of the biggest money makers for big pharma and will not gently into that goodnight, but as long as they keep getting fines which in the long run are just slaps on the wrist, this will be an annual token event with the FTC.
Every January,they go after the diet industry and their ads, but yet more ads keep coming, more product clutters shelves and each one promises self-esteem in a pill. Most of the time, they work for a short while, then they don't. Some result in death, for others, the damage is so great, death would have been a blessing.
The truth is, being thin is not self-esteem, not is it always equal to healthy. Self-esteem can be had at any size, but you have to work at it. YOU have to put in the time, the effort, the work. It's not easy. It's not meant to be. Yes, if you find some form of exercise you enjoy, it is less perceived work, but it is still work. It is work to try to eat better and not slide, it is constant, it is painful, it is very hard at times, but it is worth doing. There is no magic bullet folks, sorry to say. You need to put in the work. Start small, and work your way up. That's it. That's all. No pill is going to help you become you. Only you can do that. Only you can accept yourself for who you are or change what you don't want to accept, and only you can put in the work.
So, don't give the FTC a reason to fine these companies. Let's do this the right and hard way, and put these companies out of our lives. Forever.
YOU are worthwhile. YOU are wonderful. YOU are YOU, and that is the best thing in the world to be, no matter what you look like. Embrace it, own it, be it.