| Are you too fat, too skinny, not getting enough rest, | | | | Doctors Want to Help but Can They? |
| depressed or any one of the many things society tells | | | | When you consult your doctor, he is pressured by |
| you? The truth is your mind controls your body, but | | | | financial obligations and pharmaceutical companies to |
| who controls your mind? In today's society, we have | | | | diagnose your problems with a drug solution. In fact, |
| been subject to numerous advertising campaigns to | | | | they are pressured by society in general to use drugs |
| keep us from using our common sense. | | | | to treat everything. |
| It seems that common sense is not common any | | | | What is the Answer? |
| more. Americans are the fattest people in the world, or | | | | When you decide that all this medicine is not the |
| so they tell us. I wonder why? Maybe it is because we | | | | answer, the question becomes, what is the answer? |
| are subject to the continuous advertising. | | | | Well that is just using your common sense. How do |
| What They Would Like Us to Believe | | | | we regain our common sense? That is when we turn |
| We are told to go to fast food restaurants, or to go to | | | | to self-help. But beware all self help isn't self-help. |
| any number of restaurants to indulge ourselves. This | | | | Remember the old adage, if it sounds too good to be |
| gives us more time to watch TV and be subject to | | | | true, then it probably isn't. It certainly rings true here. |
| more advertising. Since we are wising up to this | | | | When choosing a self-help guide, book, or program, |
| advertising campaign, the advertisers have started | | | | stop and think is this real or is it just more hype. If |
| another campaign of how to regain our old selves thru | | | | someone tells you can lose 40 pounds in forty days, it |
| pills, machines, surgery and many other campaigns. | | | | might be so, but at what expense. You need to think, |
| We now have numerous ways for us to get the rest | | | | did I gain that 40 pounds in forty days. Probably not |
| we need, pills massages, high tech beds and the list go | | | | and therefore, losing it in 40 days doesn't make sense |
| on. Once again, we fall victim to the best marketers in | | | | either. |
| the world. Through advertising, we get fat, skinny, and | | | | In the mass advertising campaign, there is some |
| sleep better or that is what they would like us to | | | | common sense. If you burn more calories than you eat, |
| believe. When the advertising gets too confusing as | | | | you will probably lose weight. The reality is portion |
| what we should do, then advertisers tell us how to | | | | control, exercise, enjoying, and relating to nature and |
| regain our sanity. Pills are the answer. What we can't | | | | our fellow man will help us restore reality. Self-help |
| control emotionally is handled through pills. | | | | means helping yourself not the advertisers. |