How To Avoid Common Diet Scams
As our country gains weight at an alarming rate, we are spending more each year on products that promise us easy, effortless weight loss. Each year in the United States, an estimated 35 billion dollars are spent each year on weight-loss products. The problem is that in spite of headlines that feed our hopes that a new, secret, “better” weight loss formula has been discovered, the truth is there are no easy solutions to losing weight. Simply put, weight loss is a combination of lifestyle choices and is the result of a firm commitment to making and maintaining them over a period of time. Any products that offer weight loss without reduced caloric intake and increasing activity levels are fraudulent- and a waste of money. Why Do People Buy Products That Are Scams? Denise Bruner, MD, MPH, FASBP is a specialist in weight loss and a fellow in the American Society of Bariatric Physicians. She shares one of the major reasons that weight-loss scams flourish today: “W...