Fat female celebrities
#1
Posted 01 December 2007 - 10:16 AM
Worthless diet - Fat celebrity - Women's mags - Daytime TV - Celebrity 'news'
A study on one of the largest commercial weight-loss programs was just published in the International Journal of Obesity but has been ignored by the press. Understandably, a major media campaign and flurry of press releases have not trumpeted its findings.
Researchers at four major research centers across the country followed 60,164 adults enrolled in the Jenny Craig Platinum program in 2001-2002 to evaluate how long people were able to stick with this program and how much weight they lost.
They found that a quarter dropped out the first month, 42% after 3 months, 22% after 6 months, and only 6.6% were able to stick with the program for a year.
Unlike Kirstie Alley, the weight loss among people not being paid as celebrity spokespersons was considerably less notable. For a 200 pound woman able to keep with the program an entire year, according to this study, she would have lost half a pound a week....except fewer than 7 out of 100 were able to hang in for a full year. Hardly winning endorsement for the success and palatability of the program.
Indeed, a government review found that two-thirds of American dieters regained all the weight they had lost within a year, and 97% had gained it all back within five years.
Among the charges the FTC specifically made against Jenny Craig was that it “falsely represented that the advertised prices were the only costs associated with the programs....also deceptively failed to adequately disclose additional mandatory expenses.” The FTC added allegations that “Jenny Craig represented without adequate supporting evidence that nine out of 10 customers would recommend the Jenny Craig program to a friend, and represented that it had surveys backing up that claim, when it did not.” They were ordered to have scientific data to back up any future about weight loss and maintenance and to disclose in their advertising or to any consumers who inquire by phone all fees and costs of the additional products or services in the programs. There is no evidence that the FTC action has resulted in any changes.
Jenny Craig International is one of the corporate sponsors of the lobby group, American Obesity Association, along with Weight Watchers International, Inc., Slim Fast Foods Company, pharmaceutical companies and Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc (a bariatric surgical supplier). As discussed here, these organizations, along with insurers and major employers, are also part of the National Business Group on Health. These groups lobbied to get obesity declared a “disease,” pushed for weight loss products to be tax-deductible (in other words, subsidized by taxpayer dollars) and market the “costs of obesity.”
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#2
Posted 01 December 2007 - 11:16 AM
two-thirds of American dieters regained all the weight they had lost within a year, and 97% had gained it all back within five years.
Maybe they are not standing up enough!
See my stand up post.
Because of recurrent nightime GERD, I stopped eating night time snacks.
My GERD was relieved without medication AND I've trimmed off some fat.
Night time GERD video.
BIGGEST SCIENCE SCANDAL EVER...Official records systematically 'adjusted'.
#3
Posted 02 December 2007 - 12:55 AM
#4
Posted 02 June 2008 - 02:38 PM
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Oprah Is Fat Again
http://www.inoutstar...Again-5705.html
Defenders of the status quo are always stronger than reformers seeking change,
UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.
#5
Posted 03 June 2008 - 07:52 AM
Mark S Young
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#6
Posted 05 June 2008 - 07:25 AM
Edited by maineman, 05 June 2008 - 07:26 AM.
#7
Posted 05 June 2008 - 12:33 PM
I will agree that RANDOM supplements aren't going to get one much more than poorer most of the time, BUT, your blanket assertion is overbroad. Suppliments are clearly beneficial in certain contexts.
Are you breaking out a lot? take zinc and watersoluable A. You're probably deficient for one reason or another. If you want to test it, use the digital camera.
Feeling whiped out consistently around your period? Maybe an iron supplement for two weeks makes the difference for you.
Will you be working on or around old paint, by all means take an iron and a calcium supplement every day for a while prior and during the project. This will prevent lead uptake if you're at all deficient.
During the winter, or if you're not getting any sun, vitamin D has all sorts of data supporting its use--just don't overdo it. You don't need much and too much is not good.
During times of high stress, say the holidays or a family member's illness, take a smattering of B-complex, C, D, Zinc or even a multi or two. You are likely going to eat poorly and one might suspect the stress will create differential needs for certain vitamins. Plus, you're likely to be subjected to all sorts of germs, so you want to make sure your immune system and body has everything it needs. Obviously a bit of lead time is better than trying to play catch up.
Are most supplements a waste? Yes. In fact, most of the above will be wasted, but in all probability not all. It's a cheap insurance policy.
Mark
Simple rules:
Average person needs 10 calories per pound per day.
Ideal weight is unknown, but any BMI or standard weight chart gives you a pretty wide range based on height. Shoot for somewhere in the middle.
Spread those 10 calories out between proteins, carbs, fats, etc. Basically, you know, what you LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN.
Exercise is important. Ideally, you should burn around 300 calories per work out, minimum 3 times per week. More if you just like to do it.
A balanced diet provides all the minerals and vitamins you need. Additional randomly chosen "supplements" are a waste, a scam and are not backed up by ANY scientific evidence.
Laughing burns more calories than worrying.
I've thought about writing a diet book, but unfortunately what I just told you is all you need to know.
The fact that is so simple annoys people. They are so convinced that it has to be more complicated, that they ignore this advise and waste time, money and effort on expensive diets, misguided information, and self loathing and despair when their initial wrong assumption turns out wrong, so they feel it must be their "Fault" or they "did it wrong".
Hope this helps.
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#8
Posted 05 June 2008 - 07:39 PM
#9
Posted 05 June 2008 - 08:17 PM
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#10
Posted 09 June 2008 - 11:40 PM