Obesity and its effects are major topics on magazines and on television with the critics pinpointing fast-food restaurants as the main culprit and as a result fast food has earned for itself a bad reputation. Fast-food restaurant apparently serve its customers food full of fat, sodium, and all kinds of preservatives. They are, critics say, filled with unhealthy components contributing to the ever-expanding waistline of the public. This generation is obsessed with the concepts of now and instant. People devour food thinking the supply is unlimited. Food servings are much heftier now than in the past. Simply put, people eat more but not necessarily better.
However, the public is now concerned with health and fitness, rushing in through the highway of losing weight with weight loss plans and diet pills. Some are outlandish and ridiculous; people who advocate them are simply out to make a profit out of other people’s desperation to shed pounds. Others are well-meaning, like the low-carb diet, but somehow impossible as carbohydrates are in the bottom of the food pyramid and nutritionists say it is essential and indispensable. A balanced diet, then, is still the best diet.
It is virtually impossible to advocate a single diet plan or take diet pills until the world ends. The quest to losing weight sometimes ends up as a losing battle leading to frustration. Apparently, vegetarianism only works for people with good self-control and a very loud conscience (this conscience sees PETA posters everywhere). One of the reasons for the ever-expanding waistline is the lack of self-control. Simply put, self-control is a big factor in avoiding calories. Thus, losing weight shouldn’t rely on the science of diet pills and other food supplements devised to burn fat. It all comes down (or up) in the mind.
The mind is such a powerful and complicated tool that has not yet been fully studied, much less understood. It plays a part in appetite; depressed people freeze in a catatonic state and do not eat for days. It’s all in the mind, psychiatrists say. Recent studies have concluded that people with better self-control are better in attaining their goals, whether it concerns shopping or physical pleasures such as food. Self-control is linked to self-esteem. Maybe it is time to get the focus off diet pills and focus on the psychology of self-control for losing weight.
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