Should the diet and weight-loss industry be held financially liable for people with eating disorders?

Yes

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by Frances Ruocco

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Article: Yes, because many will write one article after another that will stress that beauty is achieved only if one is slim.

First of all most of their models must be and remain a under size two or else they are never hired at all or out of jobs.

Secondly, they display a full line of clothes for the fuller figure, but, the models who making the money are not the full figured men or women, but men and women who are smaller sizes so their clothes more enticing. They are using double standards, because they want to make their money on the heavier people, but do not want heavy people to make any money in return. They pick the models who wear the smallest size in the merchandise, i.e. pants, jackets, shirts, etc.

They should design clothing that compliments the fuller figure and show how by wearing different outfits one can look thinner.

Many full figured men and women who know how to dress correctly look as handsome and lovely as the slim man or woman standing next to them.

Many magazines have brainwashed us into believe that if we do have a full figure we are not attractive and we then always find ourselves make excuses as to why we are built the way we are; are afraid to eat in front of others because they will be watching us; and stay quiet whenever others talk about their diets. This insecurity then escalates and as soon as we get home we are overeating because something in our bodies is not functioning as it should be.

Many will advertise exercise machines; diet pills; one diet plan after another; this diet book written by this famous star detailing the quick and easy way to become pencil thin and that group that has all the answers. Many of them are only money makers that promise to shed the pounds, but don't produce the results that they claim to produce and the cycle continues over and over again.

They do not say that a lot of the people who buy their products are like yo-yos with weight going up and down, and the weight they lost last year will be back on with more pounds in six later, or how many of these people develop health and/or mental problems because the products do not work.

Why even Princess Diana and her sister-in-law Fergie were constantly made to feel insecure because they may have had a few extra pounds on from time to time.

Why don't we as a society realize that people who have everything aren't able to enjoy the world we live in because of what we read, hear and see from the weight loss industry.

Many of the diets are very harmful to our health, and many times we are not even made aware of the damage that is being done to our bodies because of popping pills, going on liquid and/or water diets and or overexercising until we drop.

Regardless of knowing how much damage is done, many people still continue to get rich on false advertisements concerning that their food has the magic ingredients. Their exercise machines will keep us thin, however, they fail to state that we must exercise six hours a day to remain as thin as they want us to be or they will not work at all.

Medical Science is starting to realize that we are healthier if a few pounds are added as we grow older; we look better and younger than many older people who are too thin.

Medical Science also states that it is better for us if we stay one weight than to go up and down every six months; it is less draining on our bodies.

History has also proved that people live to one-hundred year of age regardless of the size just as people die at a young age regardless of their size. The same applies to the quality of life people have, whether they are heavy, wealthy and/or in good shape or not.

Unfortunately we never learn as a society, that there are some people who will never be thin just as there as some people who no matter what they do will ever gain a pound.

Insurance companies also bear some of the responsibility because of the weight tables they set. I am sure if their records were checked, thin people as well as heavy people have high blood pressure, sugar diabetes and other health problems.

However, they themselves do not accept that responsibility of causing people to constantly diet because they claim being slim is healthier than being heavy. At the same time they will refuse to pay the cost of treatment in hospitals and/or clinics where the patients are treated for either problem, be it overeating or under eating. They refuse even if it is a matter of life and death that is caused by someone being Anorexia.

Again, I ask, should we be allowed to sue these organizations and people who constantly make billions of dollars on false promises concerning people who become Anorexic?

What about those of us who lose loved ones because others have decided what the perfect human being should look like?

I would imagine that everything in our society comes in various sizes, be it God made or man made, trees, flowers, houses, buildings, cars and/or animals. Why should it be any different with Humans and why shouldn't those who try to convince us that we should all be the same size, not bear some of the responsibility when their false advertisements cause damage and death to our loves ones.

Why do we keep giving them our money and keep buying their products?

We would never let them tell us that we should all live in the same color house, have the same color hair, drive the same make automobile. Why do we allow them to dictate what size we should all be and destroy our confidence?

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