Diet Commercials

Jan 21, 2009 16:45

You know what drives me nuts? Diet commercials that talk about how such-and-such program was so great for 'managing hunger'. Guess what? There's already a pretty well-proven way of managing hunger, and you don't even have to send in money to the starvation industry to try it out.

It's called food.

Seriously, except in really rare cases, people get hungry because their bodies need fuel. Nobody talks about how to 'manage' a full bladder; if you have a full bladder, you take a leak. If you're thirsty, you get something to drink, if you're tired, you sleep. When you're hungry, your body isn't punishing you for being a fat-fatty-fatass, it's telling you to get something to eat. I'm not really going to get into dieting because that's an entirely different can of worms, but I will say that if your diet means that you're hungry all the time, it isn't good for you. Even if it makes you thinner.

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