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Gullible Naive Society or Just down right Lazy?

JDMac82
JDMac82 Posts: 3,192 Member
edited August 2018 in Debate Club
**DISCLAIMER**
This post is not meant to make any one feel singled out our having a finger pointed at them!

Why do people fall for the Drink Me Skinny Tea, ABC/XYZ Cleanse, WRAPS, Detox Pills/Powders, Neoprene Belts (Sweet Sweat) Squeeze Me Skinny (Corsets) and all the other ETC waste your money?

I dont intend to be mean but come on people THINK, USE YOUR BRAIN.

You CAN NOT target burn fat off your thighs, triceps, stomach, elbow, pinky toe, etc.

Proper Nutrition and Exercise are the ONLY PROVEN (outside a Medically Diagnosed Condition) methods.

Maybe its just me but all this waste of money stuff now a days................. have we really fallen that far off the Intellectual Bus?

Curious to see if I am the only one who thinks this.

Thanks for the read and comments
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  • JDMac82
    JDMac82 Posts: 3,192 Member

    Actually - depending on your goals - the bolded doesn't have that much to do with the reasons people are utilizing those quick fix scams. If the goal is to lose weight - a calorie deficit is what matters. Proper nutrition and exercise are important factors for overall health, but they don't guarantee the calorie deficit or the weight loss.

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    I agree with you about Deficit for weight loss, thats what I was saying is that Proper Nutrition (Deficit to lose / Overage to Gain) and exercise are the only ways to get to said Goals.

    Not utilizing some quick fix.

    My fault if that was clear enough.
  • Packerjohn
    Packerjohn Posts: 4,855 Member
    Since we as a society are lazy we become gullible in order to find a quick fix.
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    pinuplove wrote: »
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    AnvilHead wrote: »
    People fall for those scams for two reasons:

    1) Inherent laziness/wanting a "quick fix"/not wanting to take any initiative to actually learn anything about how the body works.

    2) Because the diet/fitness industry is very, very good at understanding the psyche of their target audiences, and is very, very good at marketing their BS in a manner that makes it very appealing to said audiences. They understand 1) above, and prey on it.

    The industry also understands that the 'appeal to authority' seems to hold a lot of water with people - hence you have Doctor Oz, Doctor Fung, Doctor Mercola, Doctor Lustig, etc. - and gullible people think "Well, he's a doctor, so he must know what he's talking about". They don't realize that these "doctors" are just snake oil salesmen who are using their titles to sell products. They won't do a half hour of research to vet their sources.

    But somebody still has to explain to me why anybody listens to Taubes. He has no education or training in medicine, health or nutrition. He's a freaking journalist. You might as well take nutritional advice from the guy who changes your oil at the local Speedy Lube. Taubes is as credible/reliable a source as Freelee the Banana Girl or David 'Avocado' Wolfe.

    I actually had the counter guy at the place where I got my last oil change try to sell me on some quack "health" supplement that he said would help my dad's dementia. It took a lot for me to not smack the crap out of him, considering my dad was in the hospital and very sick at the time.

    No jury of your MFP peers would've convicted you. That would be justifiable assault and battery.

    Yup. I was getting the oil change done before making the drive to see him. It really just spoke of how people will prey on those they think are weak.

    That's despicable and embodies everything I hate about MLMs :frowning:

    It really was deplorable. ☹
  • allison8668
    allison8668 Posts: 885 Member
    I would say lack of education regarding fitness, nutrition, the human body ...
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    Not to mention all the crowd-funded quackery the internet has brought us....ie Solar Roadways, Fontus, SciO etc. Plus the popularity contest impractical BS like Hyperloop.