Friday, May 2, 2008

Fat chance: A diet pill won't make you thin!

I can't get to sleep yet so I thought I would share some of my thoughts!

Mt. Doug was awesome today, we had a lot of fun on the mountain and it was very tough for everyone!

On another note, I was reading about the $222 million spent of diet pills! That number is going to grow to $2 billion by 2016!

In general, the biggest mistake people make in taking diet pills is looking at them as magic bullets.

"People cannot expect a medication to do it for them,” says Gary Foster, director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University in Philadelphia. “It’s a 50/50 partnership with the pill being half the equation. Exercise, what we eat and our lifestyle habits … are critical to long-term success.”

We need to worry more about the side effects of taking these weight loss pills! There are a lot of negative side effects and adverse problems from taking weight loss pills!

Instead we need to focus more on eating right and exercising to lose the weight and stay in shape and live a healthy life!

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