Dieter’s majority refuse to request Doctors supervision
November 07, 2006
A new survey reported that most of the Americans
are trying to lose weight on their own i.e. without taking
any kind of help from their doctors. As per the survey the
list contains 70 percent of obese Americans. Out of these
70 percent, 30 percent are giving their try to the dietary
supplement products available in the market which includes
all kind of shakes and powders. Their main motive to try these
products is to escape from doing any kind of sweating labor.
Doctors told that there is no safe method
to lose more than a pound and no proof that suggest these
products help at all. Saul Shiffman who is health psychologist
at university of Pittsburgh said that people need to get away
from magical thinking and he also said that it is easy to
hope for a magic pill that’s going to boost the metabolism
or shed extra pounds.
Dr George Blackburn, who is a Harvard Medical
school nutrition expert, also involved in the survey and said
that everybody can lose weight. He also added that they did
not try long enough and effectively enough.
According to the marketing information firm
ACNielsen, nearly 15 percent of US households buy such products
at least once last year. On this survey dieters have not seeked
doctors help, it is totally based on random phone calls to
3500 adults nationwide.
In the survey interviews was conducted by
the Center for Survey Research and Analysis at the University
of Connecticut with a funding from GlaxoSmithKline PLC. in
between Nov 18, 2005 and Jan 10, 2006. The result of study
weighted to represent the population by demographic factors
such as age, sex region and education. This report was published
at the recent obesity research meeting in Boston.
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