Crazy Magazine Covers

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Ever notice how most of the mags in the grocery store aisles always have similar themes on them?

Usually there is a picture of a skinny hot-looking chick on the front, with HUGE type promoting some new weight loss method, but then there are sub articals for super fattening desserts (with picts usually also on the front cover).

I've noticed this forever and think it's twisted as sends really contradictory messages (mostly to women).

One of the craziest one I saw was this month's "First" Magazine. It has everything I described on it--including an article on a "diet" that claims you can "lose 14 lbs. in 7 days!"

This includes making flavored water from lemons, maple syrup and cayenne pepper. Then you just drink it and eat nothing else except for a bowl of soup at the end of the day. They claim it speads your metabolism, but I think bascially the only reason it works is you starve yourself (though spicy and sour stuff is a great appetite suppressant).
 
Family Circle and Woman's Day are notorious for that... ok they odn't have the Hot looking woman onthe cover, but they usually have a really tasty looking confection on the cover... along side that they are touting the latest miracle diet or exercise plan...

I'm liking Fitness Magazine and Shape Magazine more and more, the recipes in them are healthy, the diets in them are reasonable, ok the exercises I can't quite master but sometimes I can - -they had a fun one on belly dancing a while back that was cool...

The other women's magazines though are so contradictory... I suppose it's something for everyone, and not everyone needs to diet... but...
 
I never noticed that but now that I think about it, yes, what an odd contradiction. That spicy water diet sounds downright dangerous.
 
well most diet pills and such contain Cayenne. so i don't think its so bad unless you have tummy trouble. Those mags tend to lean both ways probably to appeal to both types. my type and those darn skinny people that can have desserts.....
 
Saw a mag cover today.... "Salt can help you loose weight! Loose 30 lbs in 10 days!"

wtf.

>.<
 
I saw something last night, when i was looking up "internal cleansing" -- that if you drink low doses of epsom salt, it acts as a scrubber for your intestines... and well you might just lose 30 pounds in 10 days -but youd alsonver leave the bathroom :)
 
sounds like what some teenager girls do I know... drink laxatives and use the finger down the throat diet.

I swear.. why would you ever do that? I guess if I was extreamely overweight I might if I got desperate.. but then I do have suisidal tendancies.. but these girls are like 130.. 125.. 110.. 105.. and wanna be beneith 100. like.. frig. insanity.
 
The spicy-lemon water diet wouldn't be so bad if it was just a supplement to take with healthy low-calorie/low-fat meals. The problem is it's not.

You are supposed to use the spicy-lemon water as a replacement for breakfast and lunch--and eat no real food until dinner. Then, you are only allowed to eat a bowl of soup (super-low calories).

The article claims the lemon-cayenne pepper water increases your metabolism to assist in weight-loss, but actually it's just starvation.

My cousin is dangerously anorexic--to the point she's skin and bones and has been in and out of the hospital and STILL denies she has a problem. So reading these kinds of articles really blows my mind. It's like the people writing them are the same kind of people who'd believe or advocate that smoking is healthy because it "relaxes" you. I wonder how many people develop eating disorders (including food-addiction) because of this kind of misinformation.
 
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