The fact that we’re in the year 2006 and people still think that there are some “secrets” to dieting - and that celebrities somehow have access to a vault of classified information about how to lose weight - depresses me.
It’s sad that so many people still think that there is a mystery to losing weight that is deeper than just taking in fewer calories than you use.
And if it weren’t so tragic it would be funny that people buy celebrity diet and fitness books in their quest to lose weight and get fit. What indication have we had that we should do ANYTHING in our everyday lives that celebrities do? I guess this has something to do with our society’s growing obsession with all things celebrity, which is another topic for another writer.
Well, here’s the secret – and it’s a biggie – THERE ARE NO SECRETS WHEN IT COMES TO DIET. And the same goes for exercise, but I’ll get to that issue another time.
To show you how silly celebrity diets are, let’s look at the example set by Lindsay Lohan. On the cover of the January 16 edition of US Weekly magazine we’re told we’re going to get the diet secrets of Lindsay, J. Lo and others. Lindsay’s secrets include eating five, small snacky meals a day – stuff like granola and veggie sticks – along with some old standards like oatmeal for breakfast, chicken at midday and fish and veggies for dinner. Miss Lohan – we’re told – gets her “bikini bod” by doing 250 crunches a week and hits the treadmill. Okay...
Meanwhile, over in Star Magazine, also dated January 16, we’re told that Lindsay says she had been using drugs and had a problem with bulimia, and that while Lindsay and her publicist were telling people Lindsay was working out with a trainer and eating anything she wanted, she really “was making herself sick.”
Do you think she’ll parlay this into a “Lose Weight and Look Great With Bulimia and Drugs” diet book?
Article comments
1 - Carol
I agree with your article, very well written by the way, and want to add to that information that is essential to health and wellbeing. Being a Science teacher and fitness afisciano (I used to weigh 375lbs adn now maintain 135lbs) I was shocked to find that I knew nothing about how cells communicate and therefore regulate every process in the body. We were teaching kids about amino acids and protein, but in actuality, several Nobel Prizes in Medicine, beginning in 1999 are about the discovery of how cells DO communicate. I researched and found myself uninformed. But, now I have been enlightened, and wish to share this with others.
Our bodies need 8 monosaccharide sugars to form the alphabet of cellular communication. On each cell in our body there are protein and carbohydrate strands called glycoproteins that are the forms whereby cells share information about their status. These sugar codes tell the immune system where to locate and dispose of foreign invaders, to kill cancer tumors, to nourish and fix cells, etc. I was amazed. It is the fundamentals of what this article that Sal wrote. We do not have these 8 sugars in our modern day diet, so we have to supplement them. Go to www.cellstoskin.com and educate yourself.