Diet scams : How to avoid getting ripped off

Have you ever received those tempting ads that seem to arrive
regularly in the post – seductive brochures describing diet
pills, patches and potions promising miracles? They show you
“proof”. They have the endorsements by medical and scientific
“experts”. They have the pictures before and after. And they
have no end of guarantees, free gifts and other offers.

But when you look a bit deeper into the background of these diet
products, you find very little of substance. With just a little
research online you will see that you can find nothing posted
from any believable source about the product or the experts
depicted so glowingly.

And you often see offer after offer sent by the same company
using the same return address.

Now the chances of a company hitting on a miracle product once
are remote but three such products in one year? No way!

Whenever you receive something which sounds like it’s the answer
to your prayers, stand back a little from the hype and the
excitement of finding a miracle solution to your weight problems
and think clearly.

Ask yourself “Is this another diet scam?”

Generally you’ll avoid being ripped-off if you decide NOT to buy
those things you think the rest of the world has missed. Believe
me the world’s press and TV (and dieters everywhere) would ALL
be shouting from the roof tops if those weight loss patches,
pills and potions worked. It’s unlikely you’d be the first to
know because the manufacturers would be telling the media about
it first and not just sending you a letter out of the blue.

If something sounds too good to be true – it probably is. If
something requires you to make no changes whatsoever other than
to take a diet pill or stick a patch on your thigh then you can
bet your bottom dollar that there will be no visible changes in
your body size as a result either.

I know it’s tempting, when you’ve struggled to lose weight for a
long time, to want to believe any promise of a miracle that
comes along. But please don’t – you’re just letting yourself in
for disappointment and heartache that way. And you’re only
delaying the start of the real process of losing weight – the
day when you finally realise you can only do this by sensible
and consistent changes in your eating and exercise habits.

Diet scams like the patches and pills on offer everywhere will
only ever reduce the contents of your bank account and never the
size of your thighs. It’s your choice whether you spend you
money on healthy food and running shoes or on miracle cures that
will never work but I know where I’d spend my hard-earned cash.

Copyright 2005, Janice Elizabeth Small

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