In today’s materialistic driven society, people are judged in every possibleaspect.
From their appearance, background, social status, way or thinking totheir friends, families. The need to be accepted and admired by otherscaptivates the minds of many men and women of today. This conquest for socialacceptance becomes so real that the idea then becomes an obsession. The way welook plays a big role in our lives. It determines the way others see us and fromthat, it will then determine how we feel about ourselves.
One major proponent ofappearance is our weight. Do you ever notice that the most admired and said tobe most popular girls in school are the sexiest, slimmest and most flauntinggirls? They are the ones that upon passing by make the guys stop and take asecond look. Not only that but this applies to men as well. The mostheart-throbbed, crushed on guys are those with firm-cut bods, most of the timecarrying footballs or basketballs. From these observations, it becomes a knownfact, not only for the young generation, that men and women are obsessed withtheir weights. And why not?? Whenever you turn on the television or open amagazine all you see are beautiful people flaunting their beautiful bodies.
Thisconstant images of seeing sexy idealistic people implants a message in our mindsthat this is the way all men/women should look in order to be beautiful. Andbecause of this, we subject ourselves to abusing our health and bodies just sowe can be like those perfect images. As early as I can recall, there have beenways and tactics created by man to loose weight as fast as they can. The fasterand easier, the better.
In the past three years, there has been an abundantintrusion of “diet pills” that has hit the Philippines. The first onethat hit was an appetite suppressant drug called Ionamin. It apparentlystimulates the brain’s appetite-control center into thinking that your stomachis always full. It is an effective weight loss drug that enables one to lose theweight desired in a short amount of time.
Consequently, the drug was found tohave unpleasant adverse side effects. These are: mood changes, blurred vision,unpleasant taste or dry mouth, constipation, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, urinaryurgency, false sense of well-being. It was a non-prescription drug easily thatcould easily be bought by anyone until studies showed much side effects veryharmful to one’s health. Next and still quite popular with the public are Bankokpills. These pills are so in demand in the Philippines that people are willingto pay thousands of pesos for just a 2week supply of those pills and further,they are bought through connections because they are not just sold anywhere inany drugstore.
This drug taken morning and night somehow also works as aappetite suppressant but the way it gets rid of your unwanted excess weight isby taking it out through your bodily fluids. In other words, when inducing thedrug you are subjected to constant urination. It takes out so much that it alsotakes out the liquids that your body needs to maintain itself. Your urine willturn into a clear almost like water appearance from the usual yellow color. Thiswill then cause and leave you feeling dehydrated. In my opinion, using bankokpills for weight reduction may work fast but the results are ill looking.
Theweight that you loose will leave you looking dry and malnutritioned. Basicallyyou will look unhealthy and ugly. Recently, a new drug was introduced in theweight loss market, Xenical, the generic name for Orlistat. This is ananti-obesity agent manufactured by F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.
It is a lipaseinhibitor for obesity management that acts by inhibiting the absorption ofdietary fats. This drug on the other hand, disposes unwanted body fats bysecreting it through your feces coming out in the form of oil. Sometimes your”poop” will even just seep through as all oil. Also, throughout thedays of treatment, you will experience oil-spotting discharges.
This drug is aprescription drug used to cure obesity for medical purposes so there are stillstudies to make as to how the drug will affect people who just take the drug forquick diet purposes. But like all drugs there is a good possibility that itcould be harmful to us when taken ignorantly. Subjecting yourself to habitforming diet pills that are bad for your health so that you can reach the weightand look you want is not the proper way. Also, once you stop using the pill youwill quickly gain twice as much as you lost in the first place, faster than youcan make it back to the store to buy some more pills.
The one who looks good orfeels good about themselves doesnt necessarily have to be the thinnest one inthe group. In fact nowadays people with curves are the ones who are thought ofas sexy. I mean, if you are to put your arms around someone, would you want tohold a bag of bones or hold someone who is soft and who actually has somethingto be held? And besides, what makes a person beautiful is the person as a whole. Their mind, personality, attitudebeing in his or herself! Of coursemaintaining the proper weight is always good but doing it the right way likeexercising and eating right is a better healthier way to do it. In that caseyour body will also slowly but effectively condition itself to eating right andworking out regularly so that your body will remain healthy and maintain itselfat the proper weight you desire.
So if I were you, dont be an empty-headedperson who would harm themselves just so that they can look good for otherpeople who dont even admire them for their inner being but for how they lookin a bathing suit.Health Care
