like it, baby. Feeling at a low ebb? Have some
anti-depressants, luv. They've got a pill to sell you
for everything. Illness = money and they've got us
all hooked on it.
I only know the truth because I've lived it. Had I
listened to all the doctors and dieticians and kept
believing the NHS advice, I would still be fat and
ill. Everything they told me was wrong.
Everything. That makes me righteously angry and
I don't want anyone else to suffer like I did. Why
the hell should you?
So please, ignore the big pants ads, ignore the
NHS web site, ignore your doctor, what have they
done for you lately? A better and healthier body is
right next door to where you are - it walks
alongside you now, just as it walked alongside me
for years. It just takes a small but profound
change to be that leaner, fitter person.
than that. In any other walk of life, this would be
self-evident to all concerned. If builders kept
putting up houses that fell down within months,
they'd stop, but not in the diet industry and not in
the healthy eating orthodoxy which only continue
to exist precisely because they don't work.
It's the New Year. Better days, better health and
smaller trousers lie ahead if we can ignore an
industry which claims to have our best interests at
heart but which only seeks to line its pockets with
our misery and failure. Or as someone once said,
'don't waste time with the idiots that think that
they're heroes – they will betray you. Stick with us
weirdos.'
John Nicholson.
www.johnnicholsonwriter.com
The only reason New Year diets don't work is
because, for most people, they are inappropriate
or downright wrong. It’s nothing more complicated
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