Sunday, December 17, 2006

Dieters do calories, not exercise

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.

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