Update on Weight Control

Update

o

n Weight

Control

James Chin-Ti Lin, M.D.

Finally, finally and finally

, that is on March 7, 2009; there is an article

from

the

Internet (

com/diet/features/dieting-is-out-healthy-

ecd=wnl_wct_030609

) voicing the death

of distorted dieting and

rebirth of

healthy eating.

Over the past 2-3 decades, innumerable ideas with their pertinent weight

loss/control programs

have been promoted and

stirred a gargantuan body of

fans

and

followers. All kinds of media - TV,

newspapers, magazines, paid or

unpaid,

have done a

great job in rousing all the emotional highs

beyond

imagination

dreaming to curb the

ever-increasing concern and anxiety from the

ill effects of

overweight and obesity.

However, all these program failed to meet

the expectation.

For years, I have been extremely skeptical about all the hypes about

weight

loss/control programs

as I summed on a web

page of www.ForMeFirst.

com, titled, “

Practical Approach to Weight Control

“.

Clearly, all the hypes in weight control were all connected with two key

ingredients in

nature –

hypocrisy and commercialism.

The prevailing of these

two

has spoiled and

distorted the truth of value

of life. As a result, under their

subtlety

and power of

commercial brainwashing, most of what the

victimized

people liked

and wanted were not

what they needed. This understanding

will

hold true for all

life events.

Before current wake-up call for debunking and discarding the dream for

weight loss

through

dieting to restore and assert the

real power of losing weight

through healthy

eating, many transactions

have taken place to rake in millions

and

millions of dollars

for

those companies and individual

promoting weight

loss/control

programs. To an extent,

they are quackery and legally licensed

robbery.

Despite this wake-up call for living a realistic life, I can predict more

processes of re-

decorating

and re-designing more

programs for weight loss will

continue to appear and

flourish by manipulating

people's greed, ignorance,

anxiety and fear with the

tactics of

various forms of power and the disguise

of

various forms of deception to make money

out of you – the public.

Again, the real power of losing weight is still the power of personal will and

determination. Without

them, all “assisting”

programs will surely fall short of their

“intended” effect. To find something to

blame, to discover something for an

easy

way

out, to

say something with sympathy, and to...are largely

welcome at

any

occasions

because they are politically correct. Despite the

ruthlessness of

the

power

of

commercialism, we need to resurrect the truth of value of life and

realize

that life and

living is an

extremely serious tough business; it is contrary

to what the

media have been

portraying to us. The

media are manipulating us

for

money-

making even ignoring our

health. This should be the general

awareness and

precaution everyone needs to take in

walking

through daily

living in a safe

controlled

fashion.

At personal level, please be aware that overindulgence and obsession in

anything

will always

bring about a significant

negative impact to life and are the

most common

forms of misuse, abuse and

self-destruction of health. In a sense,

they are a set-

up of

personal slavery and imprisonment. For

succeeding in

weight

control, let us control foods

and do not let foods control us. To

understand the

whole picture of living a controlled,

realistic, happy life, you are

welcome to read “

What Is Life?...

”

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