Weight loss commercials, infomercials and magazine ads proliferate. Newscasters and doctors shake their heads sadly and inform us that we, as a nation, or over weight. Do any of these diets, products and programs work?
The answer is yes and no. Some of the diets work, at least as long as you follow them. Some of them let you lose weight, but pack on the fat, cholesterol and sodium. Some of them take your money and don’t deliver. What are we supposed to do?
First, let me list a couple of diets. The grapefruit diet is the first one I remember. I was a kid, so it’s through a child’s eyes. I saw adults looking for grapefruits, in winter, in West Virginia. Believe me, that winter, in the late 1970s, there were a lot of frustrated adults, and not many of them lost any weight. They did lose a lot of money.
