I don't know about the rest of you, but lately, I've been getting extremely annoyed everytime I see a TV ad for some new drug. "Feeling down? Can't seem to dig your way out of your own little hell? Here, have these drugs." Besides the obvious hypocricy with our War on [some] Drugs, it just bugs me that people are so short-term in their goals. We wouldn't need these drugs for cholesterol or fat loss or depression if we practiced prevention. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" ...and the drug companies are raking in the profits. Seriously though, if we got our lives in order, we wouldn't need these drugs, especially the ones for things like depression, or diet-related problems. These drugs are not well known enough to know long term effects...yet we give them to our kids! That alone is enough to boil my blood. Not to mention the fact that most of these drugs treat symptoms more than they treat the problem. Some of these cholesterol drugs may fight the cholesterol, but it can't solve the problem of these people eating poor diets (now compounded with foreign chemicals). I dunno, it's just been bugging me lately. Anyone have any thoughts?
i agree. that pisses me off, and the fucking atkin's diet, and all this low-carb bullshit....grrrrrrrrr! i lost weight the healthy, tested-and-true, old-fashioned way, and guess what? it's staying off! these people think they can eat burgers without the bun and a pound of bacon topped with cheddar cheese, but they can't have an apple, because the apple might have CARBS!!!! eeeeeeek! god forbid you just eat healthy and in moderation and exercise! noooo, not that!!!! that's been my gripe lately. you can't turn on the TV without hearing some ad about that stupid low-carb diet shit that's all the rage right now. everything in the grocery store says, "hey this only has x amount of carbs! whoooo!" so the TV is viewed a lot less by both of us lately..that and those damn erectile dysfunction/penis enlargement drug called enzyte that has that guy who keeps smiling the whole time...argh. that is annoying.
I agree with both of you. Very annoying. A healthy diet and lifestyle is just too simple for most people. Simplicity bad! Me want big distraction!
I agree, I hate this atkins craze. You know, I work at a pet food store, and they have low carb dog food now. I still haven't recovered from the shock of that. (It really makes you realize that you're selling this pet food to people, not dogs).
All these people who manage to stay on the Atkins diet are going to end up with heart problems and circulatory problems and kidney problems. You can't get something for nothing. All that meat, Gross. I eat some meat, but not the nauseating amounts the people on this diet eat. My dd is a waitress, and she says I wouldn't believe the way some of these low carb people eat. Four eggs, four sausages, four bacons, a steak, cheese on the eggs, Butter on everything (This is ONE meal for some)......and then they say "Don't give me those potatoes. I don't want to get fat." LOL!
I love the "weight loss" pill commercials. They show the before and afters, blah blah, and then the man with the low voice who talks really fast says "you may see these results with proper diet and excercise." That just cracks me up.
What is just plain sad: those anti-fatigue pills. Uhh, SLEEP maybe? That's like saying, "Hey, I'm too lazy, and I think I'm tired, so I'll just take a pill and be un-fatigued!" WTF? Medications don't even have a purpose anymore, it seems like. There's too many goddamn commercials. And the low-carb bullshit, yeesh. No one's going to keep that weight off. And you can't eat anything! What pisses me off more about the low-carb shit is that all the resteraunts are creating "low-carb" menus. Ugh. People should try to help themselves first. I know I do. Before I turn to severe psychotic meds, I always try to help myself to get better. The medication industry just kind of turned into a big dollar sign instead of an industry focused on helping people.
Those commercials upset me! While medication can be a great thing more people should be open to alternatives that are less damaging. As far as the Atkins diet....anything that low in fiber and that high in animal protein has to be unhealthy as far as digestion and cardiovascular health and so on!
Yeah, they've had those for a long time. It's called speed. Amen. Nowadays the insurance companies run everything, from patient care to research. My mom is a nurse, and my own doctor has bitched to me about the restrictions the put on him, so I hear about it often enough. Insurance companies, aside from being a huge fraud, have nothing to do with medicine and everything to do with money. They've turned hospitals into pure businesses. Yeah, I'm a big fan of holistic medicine. I wish we could combine that with western medicine (there is a lot of merit there). I mean, I want regulations on medicine, and credited doctors, but there just seems like too much outside control, and doctors can hardly do their jobs. They HAVE to order unnecessary tests, just to avoid malpractice suits, wasting my money, and forcing me to have insurance! It's a vicious circle, or web, as it were...
I can understand the hole diet pill thing.. But if youre talking about perscribe pills for depression and other health problems, thats where I would have to disagree with you big time. Do you suffer from depression, or anxiety or any other form? Probably not, so you really dont know what you are talking about...
im sick of those adds that say like, "are you trying to loose weight? the new diet-plus acrobateni is just for you! " they make up all these stupid names.. "the enriched ingredient, phosphorus technitoma, is all you need to drop your weight instantly!" and then they make up a stupid ingredient. then they show before and after pictures of liek completely different people who are saying , "oh yeah! i lost 100 pounds in two weeks!" and then they put (in really fast talking), "side affect may include: kidney failure, heart disease, lung cancer, heart failure," and it goes on for like 5 minutes.
Yeah, I love that one. After every ad, they say you still have exercise and eat right... so whats the fucking point?!?! if your already doing that, you should'nt need pills to boast your metabolism, and if your eating right you should'nt be hungry all the time! And these kids on drugs just blow my fucking mind. Every other kid out there has fucking add or some other kind of mental illness. It's all bullshit made up by the corperation. The problem is that these people are bad fucking parents. They don't know how to raise a damn kid. They realize their kid wakes up at 6 in the morning and they think he has add. Thats what little kids do! They get up early cause! They give their kids drugs for the same reason they take drugs themselves--they can't take care of shit. The worst part is that the next generation is gonna be hopped up on drugs too, because they won't know how to discipline their children either. Yeah, I fucking hate insurance. You pay up every month for this "protection", and then when you call for it, they drop you. What the fuck is that all about? You make a claim and they cancel your service? It's fucking highway robbery is what it is! No one really knows what insurance is for anymore. They think they do, but they don't. All you hear is, "you need insurance, you need insurance!", like the whole damn world will end if you don't have it. So you get it and don't think twice about. The point of insurance is that they'll back you up when you need it. If I have house insurance, and a flood comes through and wipes everything away, they're supposed to give me money to get my shit back together(assuming flood protection was in the origional agreement) but they don't. The minute you make a claim they threaten to drop you. It's bullshit too because there's nothing else. All the companies are like this. They have our balls in a fucking vice and they know it. Then you have fucking hoa on your ass putting a lean on your fucking house! Free my ass!
