Diet Pills

Through a substantial amount of research the authors prove that by following a fad diet it can cause many adverse effects, as well as shedding light on benefits of exercise and maintaining a balanced diet. In the opening chapters of the book it is discussed why low fat diets do not work and exactly which diets do. While reading about low fat diets and the health risks that they cause, the book draws you in by explaining the patient profile of a 55 year old man, whom had lost his life due to heart attack. By reading this section of the book its outline how we are all responsible for maintaining our own health, and cases

The author of this article begins her analysis of the rise in eating disorders by acknowledging America’s obsession with being the ideal weight. From an extremely young age, American children are being taught that women in movies and on the covers of magazines possess the ideal figure. The author states “Children are being taught…being fat is the worst thing one can be” (Bordo 1). This is disturbing to say the least. There many attributes worse than being overweight: dishonest, cruel, and murderous to name a few. Bordo also uses an example in the first paragraph of her essay that is appalling. Alicia Silverstone, the lead role in Clueless, was completely bombarded with insults about her weight, though she had only gained a few pounds since her starring role. The advertisers did

An increasing number of people are using products to enhance their diets. A recent estimate indicates, “Americans are spending some $6 billion annually on nutritional supplements, and the market is growing by 20% every year” (Zahn, 1997). Of these supplements, the increase in herbal remedy use is most dramatic. Zahn holds that the increase can be attributed to the widely held belief that herbal substances are healthy and harmless because of their natural origins (1997). Unfortunately, research on these supplements, herbal or otherwise, has not transmitted to the public as quickly as the diet enhancers themselves. The phenomenon leaves many consumers misguided by skewed advertising and

The amount of obese and overweight individuals is increasing every year in the United States. With 33.9% of American adults obese, and 34.4% overweight, but not obese, more and more people are looking for any alternative to lose weight (Anonymous 2011). If someone told you that they knew of a weight loss pill that actually works, would you consider it?

Abstract: Excessive use of diet pills by American women stems from the idea that thinness is ideal. This ideal is unlikely to change in the near future, so the use of diet pills and other unhealthy fat diets is likely to increase. If women remain unaware of the health risks associated with the use and abuse of these unregulated drugs, rates of illness and even death are also likely to increase. In 1997, the use of diet pills directly caused seventeen deaths (Cohen). Medical professionals speculate that many other deaths are indirectly related to weight-loss drugs. FDA regulation of 'natural' substances such as ephedrine and caffeine would alleviate widespread use

In order to prevent higher rates of obesity in the community, government has to intervene. Marion Nestle claims that "a recent

For the previous couple decades, Americans have been misled by the government and health professionals, who were implementing inaccurate dietary standards that led to the promotion of certain items as “healthy”, has actually resulted in a nationwide obesity epidemic of vast proportions. This unprecedented surge in obesity has affected everybody from children in elementary schools, to retired seniors, and has contributed to the single largest rise in diseases, the world has ever known. Obesity has actually reached the number two cause of preventable death in the United States (Healthaliciousness), thus created the first generation of children ever in history which is predicted to have a shorter lifespan than their parents. The documentaries Fed Up and Forks over Knives are both in support of creating a healthier America for all individuals. Although they both share a similar concept on how fast-food is extremely harmful, but both take quite different approaches to support their claim. In the documentary Fed Up, Stephanie Soechtig allows us to follow the lives of four families who are struggling with a childhood obesity problem. Throughout the film she has various “experts” express their opinions to help combat the epidemic, but their selection of “experts” is mainly through politicians, political leaders, and journalist, but not so much on nutritional scientist. On the other hand,

For my satire project, I focused on the topic of Obesity for which to find a humorous solution. Today obesity is an exponential problem in the United States. Americans are evolving into the laziest humans in the world because we don’t want to work towards the goal of being fit; all we want to do is take a pill and wake up skinny in a week’s time. The industry for weight loss and its advertisement has gone way too far, and they are steering us in a bad direction. Likewise, my targeted audience would be the industry of diet planning and those who fall into the trap of “losing thirty pounds a month” with a formulated shake or pills. Given these points, my purpose for this assignment is to expose the ridiculousness of the weight loss plans in today’s

Today’s society is a consumers’ society in which trying to obtain perfection is one of the fastest selling businesses (DeLaMater Pg. 12). Mass media, advertising, and fashion industries are being accused of feeding off females dissatisfaction with their bodies by portraying unhealthy thin role models in order to sell their products. This unachievable physique and lifestyle has led today’s adolescence down a dark path of such extreme eating disorders as anorexia and bulimia. Although it may sound nice to be societies perception of thin, there are consequences to these eating disorders such as cardiac failure that lead to horrifying defects or even death.

Did you know as claimed by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine American’s annually spend $3.2 trillion on health care? It was very eye opening when I, myself read the article titled “Unhealthy Eating Makes Health Care Expensive” by Timothy Philen. The article mentions how our unhealthiness began with our exceptional unhealthy eating habits. He points out what he thinks the root cause is in order for the readers to be persuaded. Therefore blaming Dante the food chemist as the possible cause for creating food “crave” with ingredients that included sodium nitrite, ingenuous hydrogenated oils, and monosodium glutamate. This was the author’s way of defending himself by using ethos as a way of reaching and connecting

It was also mentioned that food industries merely aim to increase profit and marketing. Food production focuses to make food more appealing to consumers by producing their products to look, taste, and have longer shelf life (which consumers gravitate towards when making food choice.) On the other hand, to reverse the health concerns that were brought up, the documentary also provided information to aid people exercise alternatives to live healthier. For example, people should increase their organic or whole food intake and decrease processed food, have adequate sleep, and daily exercise. When an individual learns to appreciate a whole food diet, it will be easier to forgo processed food, therefore feeling happier and energized. All in all, a better diet improves emotional, mental, physical health.

Today 's society is constantly presented with misrepresentations of the ideal body image through the advertising of diet plans and supplements. Companies in the fitness industry scam people into buying useless products or services by advertising with individuals that have, what the mass media sees as, the 'perfect ' body composition. In addition to getting consumers to buy into a product or service, these companies also aid society with the spreading of this fake idea of what classifies as the perfect body. They portray a body image that is unattainable for most individuals in society, despite how many of those supplements being advertised they buy. The models used in these advertisements, are in most cases, starving themselves, enhanced via illegal substances, or are photo-shopped to the point where even they do not look like the model displayed in the ad. All this has led to many people wanting to strive for that perfect body, that in reality, is impossible to achieve. In order to show the affect these advertisements play in our society, I will be deconstructing multiple ads in the fitness industry, as well as multiple peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles centered around the impact media has on an individual 's self-image.

From the topics of the perfect body and obesity in American society, corporations and dieting programs have developed ways to generate profits from people who are desperate to escape either problem. Within the realm of corporations, marketing strategies have come straightforward to regard any image of fat as unattractive and undesirable in order to push products such as “slimming” pills, dietary books, and utensils used to create nutritional foods. While these products are expensive and have less targeted audiences due to them sold on though tele-marketing, they have less positive effects and almost do nothing for the consumer expect waste their time and money. Within the realm of dieting, popular dietary trends have been shown to benefit

Weight loss pills have been a very popular for Americans for a faster way to lose weight. These pills have been promoted in TV by trainers promising a fast safe, and easy way to become thin in a short amount of time. This literature review will help the reader understand Thermogenic pills, and the content these pills contain to produce fast results.

Have you ever watched a television advertisement and afterward felt that you needed to lose weight or work out more? The weight-loss and fitness industries are billion-dollar industries and they feed off of our negative body images. There are constantly advertisements on television that tell us how unhealthy we are, how much weight we need to lose, how we must get the fat off us the quickest way possible to be slim and beautiful, or how much muscle mass we should have. This message of body dissatisfaction is a serious one and can even become deadly for young men and women. The saying is “you can never be too rich or too thin.” This is what young women believe when they see stars, their idols, walk the red carpet looking deathly skinny. They want to be like them; therefore they do whatever they can to obtain this unrealistic media driven picture of what the “perfect” woman looks like. Body image dissatisfaction has made eating disorders one of the biggest problems for young girls and women. Steroids have become the issue for young men. Commercial advertisers depict men and women as