Advice from sources that profit from your failure alert!
This BBC article,functioning as an apparent advertisement, quotes heavily from GSK, GlaxoSmithKline, a pharmaceutical company. The experts in this article have a vested interest in your failure and are recommending exercise for weight loss.
Be wary.
"John Brewer, GSK Sports Scientist, said: 'The trend of people swapping the gym for a low calorie meal is very worrying.'"
"Graham Neale of GSK Nutritional Healthcare said diet food manufacturers had a responsibility to consumers.
He said: 'With food and drink manufacturers broadening their 'diet' ranges, we need a concerted effort to encourage consumers to focus as much on 'energy out' as 'energy in'.'"
The following are from the GSK website:
"GlaxoSmithKline is a leader in the worldwide consumer healthcare market.
With nearly $5 billion in sales, over ten $100 million brands and present in 130 markets, the consumer healthcare business brings an added dynamic dimension to GSK...
In one year GSK Consumer Healthcare produces - among many others - nine billion tablets to relieve stomach upsets, six billion tablets for pain relief tablets and 600 million tubes of toothpaste."
No cures, just palliation; chest-thumping about sales and market penetration. Arguably, they want to keep people "sick."
Follow their advice at your own risk.
Sunday, December 17, 2006
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