A reflection of the culture we live in

samibtx — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:03:31 +0000

While visiting eating disorder recover\related webistes you get automated advertisements as we all do based on keywords related to the website.
I’ve seen to many like this, here are two I saw next to each other awhile back:

“Lose weight fast! 20lbs in two weeks!”
And then next to it:
“Anorexia treatment. Find a recovery center near you.”

And today I saw these three lined up:

1 Tip for a Flat Belly :
Cut down 3 lbs Belly Fat every week just by using this 1 Weird Old Tip.

Womens Anorexia Stories
Real Anorexia Stories From Real Women On A Womens Community Website

Eating Disorder Treatment Information, Resources and Recovery

Now is that not a reflection of the culture we live in or what?

The Alli Diet Plan

samibtx — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:21:07 +0000

I am so tired of yet once again another ignorant diet\weight loss ad to add the pile of fat-phobic material to burn.

The Alli Diet Program, the low-fat ultra happy-happy thin-thin program.
One of their commercials offends me to say the least.
It basically goes like this
“You eat when you’re happy, you eat when you’re bored, sometimes you don’t know why you’re eating at all. Alli teaches you the right way to use food.”

Ahem. Teaches you?
Oh, okay so I shouldn’t eat a whole box of Oreos. Oh! I see! Eat a vegetable stir-fry instead & only eat when I’m hungry. Oh, thank you Alli for teaching me not to overeat. My overeating problems are over, see, I just didn’t know any better.

You teach someone the right way to match clothes, you teach someone the right way to cook pasta, you do not simply teach a compulsive overeater\binge eater to not abuse food.
It’s exactly the same mentality that people have had towards anorectics\bulimics, that they just need to be taught that what they’re doing is bad.

Ah, I can’t remember the commercial word-for-word, but I’ll listen in next time it passes over my TV screen.

The Thinking Junction

A reflection of the culture we live in

The Alli Diet Plan