Prevention schmention--ACK! (rant)

[bkloots]

Once upon a time, I made the mistake of ordering some kind of beauty book from Prevention Magazine. Now I'm getting all their mail-order book offerings.

The latest? A book that will enable anyone to TAKE THE WEIGHT OFF AND KEEP IT OFF WITHOUT DIETING OR EXERCISE. Of course, the promotional flyer proclaims all the "secret" information this (expensive) book will provide. But I can tell what the bottom line is: low-cal/low-fat.

The flyer contains a recipe for "healthy" brownies--containing unbleached white flour, 2 cups of sugar, and chunky chocolate. What did they leave out? The egg yolks and the vegetable oil--in other words, the fat.

There's a sidebar blasting low-carb, with the usual misinformation. And the text goes so far as to say that "thin people" eat the right foods, while "fat people" eat the wrong foods. What crap.

To be fair, I am quite sure that people who obtain this book and follow these instructions forever will lose weight and learn to maintain a healthy weight. But how many people can actually do it?

Thanks to Dr. Atkins, I have finally been able to change my dietary habits significantly. I have finally learned a strategy I can live with. I have finally achieved peace (not complacency!) with my weight management issues. And when I come across promotional material like this, I just feel frustrated on behalf of so many who have failed, as I have, on "diets" that don't work, time after time.

Thanks for listening. I hear Amens! from the choir already.

[Josiemk]

I stopped getting Prevention mag about 5 years ago I got tired of them push low fat/ low cal. I wrote to them to sugest more low carb info & told them about my success with Atkins & my failure with low fat & low cal. They just ignored it & then by the time I got my last issue they had an Article called "How to do Low carb the right way" Well no thanks but I have the Atkins book. Plus this forum.

[ItsTheWooo]

Prevention magazine lead my mom to tell me eating tomato sandwiches is a good way to lose weight. I was never really health conscious but because of that magazine when I was mindful I ate pasta with little meat and sauce (which I hated - loved the meat) and trimmed fat from my beef. :lol:

[PlayDoh]

thanks for the tomato sandwich craving woo lol ;) :lol:

[Josiemk]

Tomato sandwiches LOL

I remember the Ice cream diet, When they posted that article is when I stopped taking them seriously.