Popular Diets Today
Just like today’s slavish fashionista, the desperate fad dieter is inundated with a confusing medley of eating styles, often conflicting and rarely effective over the long haul. As with fashion trends, notions about the right diet are constantly shifting. Weight-loss programs for the weight-loss weary abound and diet mania rages to the tune of billions every year. With celebrity endorsers, popular diet doctors, nutrition writers, health gurus, and a smorgasbord of multilevel health marketing plans championed by charming image models touting the successes of their respective programs, the public has been seduced into blind allegiance; at least until its time to chase the hottest, newest food fad.
The Seduction of Advertising
Historically, “dietary wisdom” espoused by government health boards, nutrition panels, and influential consumer foods advertising has been bounced back and forth; flip-flopping the food pyramid has never been so confusing. On the one hand, commercials for fast food, junk food, and snack food bombard TV home viewers. On the other hand, fashion and entertainment magazines proclaim "Thin is in."
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