If you’ve got a bad idea for a diet, here’s your big chance to get some attention — because the media is eating this stuff up as we get close to the New Year and all the doomed diet resolutions that come along with it.
And if there’s anything they love more than a fad diet backed by a flavor-of-the-month celebrity, it’s a magic pill.
They don’t bill them as magic pills, of course. They call them “diet drugs,” and I’ve told you before how these meds do little to nothing for the obese and pack big risks to boot.
Now, new research proves the drugs are pathetically ineffective — but of course, that’s not how the media’s playing it.
Nope, they say the study proves these “magic pills” work!
It’s baloney, of course, because the study finds diet pills will help you lose between 3 percent and 9 percent of your body weight. That’s not for starters, mind you. That’s the end result, after a FULL YEAR of gobbling down meds.
That adds up to between 7.5 pounds and 22.5 pounds in a 250-pound man — or enough to ease the belt by a notch or two, but not even enough to reduce his BMI from “obese” to “overweight.”
- See more at: http://douglassreport.com/2013/12/06/diet-drugs-are-a-failure/#sthash.Z8usAJs8.dpuf
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