Questions and Answers about Dieting industry

Ya know between the ads on the net and TV., Is the dieting industry out of control?

Jan 08, 2007 by Rest of Your Life Off | Posted in Diet & Fitness

Question: Some of these ads stop just short of saying" loose wait while you pound down fatty foods". I realize most of us lead busy lives but why is the concept of controlling diet and exercise being avoided like the plegue.I don't think the industry is concearned at all with

Answer: yes, i agree. and it must be real easy to make money selling pills that don't work becuase every1 wants to hear that there is an easy fix to their problem. "just take a pill and lbs will melt off you." plus with the "in" thing right now is to be deathly skinny

Shannon | Jan 08, 2007

They are way out of control and the prices they charge are crazy
glamour04111 | Jan 08, 2007



the diet industry wants to keep you fat.

The title might be a clue that this is kind of ranting and raving. intellligently though, i think... Anyway, this touches on why i take issue with ...

The DIET Industry

Hoodia makes for a very interesting case study



Obama admin. proposes sweeping new rules on what children can eat in schools

01.01.70

The federal government is for the first time proposing sweeping new standards to make sure foods sold in schools are more healthful.

Under the new rules the Agriculture Department proposed Friday, foods like fatty chips, snack cakes, nachos and mozzarella sticks would be taken out of lunch lines and vending machines. In their place would be foods like baked chips, trail mix, diet sodas, lower-calorie sports drinks and low-fat hamburgers.

The new rules are the latest in a long list of changes designed to make foods served in schools more healthful and accessible. Nutritional guidelines for the subsidized lunches were revised last year and put in place last fall.

Last year's rules faced criticism from some conservatives, including some Republicans in Congress, who said the government shouldn't be telling kids what to eat.

Mindful of that backlash, the Agriculture Department exempted in-school fundraisers from federal regulation and proposed different options for some parts of the rule, including the calorie limits for drinks in high schools.

Source: Fox News

The Butterfly Effect » Blog Archive » The weight-loss industry has no ...

by Danni Miller

The following guest post is written by Nina Funnell and was first published in The Age newspaper, 28th March . Nina is a sexual ethics writer, author and women’s rights advocate. She was awarded the Australian Human Rights Commission Community (Individual) Award in 2010. You may also wish to read my earlier post on this issue here: Alliance of Girls’ Schools Conference 2012 -Say No To Diets.

The weight-loss industry has no place in our schools

Teenage girls are under great pressure to conform to a hyper-thin body ideal.

I was 12 years old when I first came face to face with a set of body-fat calipers. It was year 7 health class and we were learning about weight management and body image. The teacher produced a pair of calipers and asked for a volunteer to be measured. No one moved. She scanned the room and eventually landed on me. Next thing I knew, I was lying down on the teacher’s desk as she measured the fat on my thighs....

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Australia's Weight Loss Industry | Business In Focus Magazine

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-By Kristy Attard

Hands up – who made a sincere New Year’s resolution to lose weight? And who followed through… anyone? These days, it seems like just about everyone wants to lose weight, get in shape and beat the bulge for good. The market is swamped with miracle products promising to get people back into their too-tight jeans. Consumers will try just about anything to slim down, from going on reality TV to ingesting tapeworms. There are thousands of diets to chew through, from Atkins to Zen. Hollywood celebrities are always serving up the next round of exercise trends to work up a sweat. It’s all a bit of a belly laugh and for those who have had a gutful with the weight loss phenomenon, read on.

Business Heavyweights

With over 1 billion overweight adults globally, the weight loss industry is big business. It is right at home in America, the fattest country in the world. Australia is the second fattest nation with rising rates of childhood obesity alarming the medical profession. It is bizarre that in a world where we have enough food to feed everyone eight times over, people still starve and die everyday from lack of nutrition. On one side of the fence there are obesity epidemics and on the other, skin and bones. We flick on the television and watch a Jenny Craig ad followed by a KFC commercial and a World Vision plea for urgently needed sponsors.

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Comments

NorLights Press says:
The media equates "thin" with "rich" and "happy." The dieting industry supports this view, but skinny is not the cure.


katerina nikolas says:
Dieting: Why the Diet Industry Doesn't Want you to Get Thin -


Sammie Justesen says:
The media equates "thin" with "rich" and "happy." The dieting industry supports this view, but skinny is not the cure.