A new Canadian Medical Association Journal Editorial says that the weight loss industry should be regulated. This would affect all those diet pills, herbal supplements, programs on the market as well as weight loss nutrition clinics. Since one out of three Canadians are overweight and one out of five are medically obese there are bound to be some unscrupulous products and programs.

Should the government really be getting involved in regulating this kind of business? To tell you the truth, I am not sure. It is the government who imposed the Canadian Food Guide which promotes the low fat, high carb approach, as well as the use of vegetable oils which oxidise and go rancid and create an omega 6:3 imbalance.

The Canadian Medical Association Journal editorial claims that it would educate and regulate health and weight loss professionals on diet advice based on scientific study.

The Low Carb diet does have solid science behind it. And it is proven to be healthier. So why are governments not promoting it as the diet of choice?

This Study that was published by the New England Journal of Medicine in July 2008. In this study the low carb dieters lost more weight and they had better reductions in total cholesterol/ HDL ratio and had greater triglyceride decreases than the Mediterranean dieters and the low fat dieters.

There is also this Stanford University Study that I had written about previously  were the Atkins diet followers beat out all the other diets in better cholesterol, blood pressure, triglycerides and of course fat loss.

So here is my opinion on regulating the weight loss industry…. The government should first start with following scientific research when dishing out their own diet advice! Knowledge is the first step to personal empowerment and healthy choices. There are so many people who think that the Atkins and Low Carb diets are unsafe and unhealthy when clearly this is not the case.

Rather than regulating weight loss products it would be awesome for the government regulators to go after the cause of weight gain! They should ban all the nasty food ingredients that contribute to food addiction and obesity such as MSG, High Fructose Corn Syrup, artificial flavours, artificial sweeteners, food preservatives and setting limits on sugars as well as making schools sugar free.

Governments are going after trans-fats and have banned them in restaurant food and grocery shelf food products all in the name for heart disease prevention… why not do the same for obesity and health.

Weight loss would not be a multi-billion industry if it wasn’t such a huge epidemic.

Diet and exercise… Can it really be that simple?

We are all responsible for our own health.

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