Article: Diet duplicity: Swanky shortcuts are not healthy

Steve Cullen
University Wire
10-09-1997
(Daily Nebraskan) (U-WIRE) LINCOLN, Neb. -- "Diet pills may hold the cure for obesity."

Sure.

"Lose 30 pounds in 30 days."

Right.

Sounds like another quick fix.

In our society, pressures from culture and its fat-pocketed, demigod
controllers have led many Americans to become obsessed with "health" and
appearance. At the root of this unhealthy health rush of waist-whittling wisdom
is the worst illness I have seen: Quick-Fix Mentality.

This mentality and the way it has gorged itself on our deep-fat-fried-food-
on-a-veggie-plate society will bloat us on a diet of falsehoods. It will kill
you faster than an overdose of fen-phen.

Short-lived trends and fad ...

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