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Should diet pills be banned?
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All of this crap is no good for you.
Yea, and I know people think that everyone should have a right, but they are negatively influenced.
Our society puts too much pressure on people to look "thin"
Want to lose weight?
Get your fat butt up off the couch, get away from your computer.
Go outside and walk around the block.
Do this each and every day until it does not make you tired, then increase your walk to two blocks.
As you reach the point of not being tired increase your walk by one block each time.
When walking around several blocks no longer gets you tired, invest in a 15-speed mountain bicycle making sure that you also invest in the proper safety equipment and riding attire – your local bike shop can assist you in all of this.
Add more fruit and nuts to your diet ( apples, bananas, and almonds are mine) and also drink plenty of water (I like Crystal light in the packages meant for the water bottles).
After all that, you will find that you never needed those stupid diet (snake-oil) pills in the first place.
And you might even end up liking yourself.
Just my not-so-humble opinion.
Ok makes sense, physical activity is the right and natural way to do so, but people still even do both to heighten the amount of weight loss.
I should think that would be the problem and not the means people use to achieve it.
Well, in history, it was a good thing to be overweight, which is why you saw the monarchs very heavy, because it was a symbol of power. Now, it's not acceptable and it is a major reason why people want to lose weight. It's not acceptable.
I'm aware of the history and influence of people of privilege upon the appearance standards.
What I am confused at is how this means that we should target the means people use to attain it, presumably under with some desirable intentions, and not their desire to try to be at some unnatural weight in the first place.
There are many programs which are efficient like the diet programs that we see on television, but these diet pills, they affect our homeostasis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-obesity_medicat...
If a product has no desirable positive impacts, people will stop using it.
Just because they have desirable positive impacts doesn't mean that it's good for you.
A desirable positive impact would pretty much mean that it has to be good for you. It does not mean that it doesn't have negative consequences.
Okay, then diet pills should be banned then.
I'm pretty sure that's not what I said should be done nor did I provide any justification for that being a valid conclusion. I stated, in other words, not that these are universally and applicably bad, but that they are positively beneficial instead. At least for some. And that these benefits might outweigh their costs. We are not generally in the best position to make this judgment for other consumers. It suffices instead to make known and continue to study the effects, both negative and positive, and report them openly and freely to society. Allow people within a free society to make that determination themselves rather than to impose it for them without qualification or exemption.
Okay Sal, here's a hint for you;
Rapid weight loss is not good for your heart and other body organs and systems.
Why?
Because you did not gain that weight rapidly and removing it rapidly causes a shock to your organs, and if you take it off quickly it is a proven fact that you will gain it right back almost as quickly.
In order to be successful at weight loss you have to change your lifestyle just as gradually as you gained the weight in the first place.
Read what I have written above one more time and you will see that is what I am saying.
Begin slowly by walking around the block, then gradually increase your walk as you are able to. Start changing your eating habits also gradually.
Remember, "By an inch it is a cinch. By the yard, it is hard."
Ah, ok so its all about losing the weight the same length of time that you gained that weight, makes sense. Now when you say shock to the organs, what do you mean by that?
Shock to the organs – As you gain weight your heart and other muscular organs increase muscle mass in order to pump your blood around your body (spleen, liver and kidneys are directly affected as well as all of your arteries and veins). Should you rapidly lose weight your spleen works overtime trying to reduce your blood levels and pressure, then your kidneys are overworked trying to reduce you body fluid levels and your liver goes into extremely low gear (your liver cleans the toxins from your blood, so less blood means less work – but that should be a slow reduction because a rapid reduction is not good as it does not clean your blood as well as it should until the levels balance out).
That is what is meant by a shock to your system – and when that happens your brain is sent the wrong signals and you wind up gaining all that weight back, and sometimes more.
Slowly changing your eating habits and slowly increasing your physical activities is the best and safest way to lose weight. Plus it helps your self esteem when you can get the weight off and keep it off.
Just trying to help. In fact, it worked for me.
I have a brother who did not try what I did and he still tips the scale at 350lbs+
I, on the other hand am at below 200lbs and my brother and I are exactly the same height.
I agree. When you lose even the littlest amount of weight, it feels good. I think the government should ban all these diet pills, because it's no good.
Jared, governmental control of all and every aspect of our lives is not and never will be the answer.
Education is the answer.
Education and self responsibility
Get my drift?.
If people want to pump chemicals into their bodies, who am I to stop them? I mean, if they really WANT all those side effects that come with those stupid pills, they can be my guests!
That's what makes this country great- the right to be stupid.
Yea, in some cases we have the right to be stupid. However, in certain cases, the government has the right to come in and protect the citizens.
"Some anti-obesity drugs have severe and often life-threatening side effects. (See, for example, Fen-phen.) These side effects are often associated with their mechanism of action. In general, stimulants carry a risk of high blood pressure, faster heart rate, palpitations, closed-angle glaucoma, drug addiction, restlessness, agitation, and insomnia."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-obesity_medicat...
This shouldn't be on the shelves.
Something is evaluated only using its costs to be a burden. What a surprise.
I have no qualm if there is a specific product or class of products which offer no benefits over competing products or offer significant costs over them as well. But if and when there are advantages, and they can be judged by individuals or objective research to be real benefits, you should not ban an entire class of products on the basis of a few which show themselves less capable.
No. It doesn't. It can protect citizens from each other, but not from themselves.
Okay, so if you put it that way, then there should be no laws whatsoever on unethical business practices?
Depends on the object of the ethics. If they are misrepresenting the item deliberately, that's a fraud or a breach of "contract".
But practices in terms of voluntarily selling something to others who voluntarily purchase it, doesn't strike me as important to govern over. Or even unethical.
anything that says wikipedia is not a good source of information…everybody knows this…just saying…i tend to see you use it often
No thats the same situation as protecting the citizens. If large corporate America is literally stealing money from you the government should absoutely enact legislation that limits the amount they can blindly rob from you.
Unethical business practices harm people. I'm not making a stand on capping productivity, or stopping any business from making money. I'm not even saying there should be a maximum allowable profit during a quarter. But if American business' showed some loyalty to Americans then they'd be rewarded by their customers with more business.
this is way off topic of diet pills, but I literally think companies who outsource jobs to China, or Mexico, or wherever should have to pay an equivalent amount of taxes to the government on those workers to help defray the cost of welfare on the American workers they should have hired in the first place.