NUTR480 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Fad Diet, Nutrient, Cabbage Soup Diet
17 Apr 2017
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In north america, there is a huge market for weight loss products. Every year there is more spent on fad diets and related products than there is on healthy products. The main reasons for this are the marketing strategies that suck people in. These products are also highly unregulated so responsibility falls on the consumer to make smart decisions. It assumes that the consumers have knowledge of nutrition and physiology, which isn"t always the case. Looking at the information that consumers are provided shows that lots of false information or steched truths are used in advertising of weight loss products. The federal trade commission looked at 300 ads to reveal that about 40% of them contained false information. Part of this is the outrageous claims that give misleading information. 1) lose 10 pounds and 48 inches in 24 hours guaranteed. Well, you need a deficit of 35 000 calories in this 24-hour period so highly unlikely.
