I was reading this article about tobacco companies being successfully sued (so far anyway) for downplaying the risks of smoking… and had a daydream…
Wouldn’t it just be frickin’ BEAUTIFUL if some diet companies got sued for downplaying the risks of dieting and weight cycling (yo-yo dieting)? Since diets are highly likely to fail (95-99%) and diet programs promote “try, try again,” I would say that yo-yo dieting is promoted in many ways by diet promoters, especially in the way that they assume the blame for diet failure is on the dieter. Grrrr.
From a previous AGR Post (Obese Cancer Explosion) these risks include:
– may have long-term negative effects on the immune system
– can lower bone material density
Maybe in my lifetime my daydream could see the light of reality… if I’m lucky, eh?
–AngryGrayRainbows
Angry Gray Rainbows 
Something similar has already happened. Several fast food restaurants have been sued (unsuccessfully) for causing heart attacks and obesity. However in the future as we continue to expand and lawyers get improve their strategies that may change.
I can see how fast food restaurants would win those cases. Fast food is not necessarily a problem. Lots of people eat it in moderation and have no health issues from it. That and food isn’t proven to be addictive, though there is a lot of pseudoscience out there that claims that food is addictive.
While fast food can be eaten as part of a balanced diet… diets fail for the VAST MAJORITY (99%) of folks… and there is some proof that shows the people who actually do lose weight on diets weren’t fat in the first place and also may have been restoring to a thinner weight after an injury had them bed bound or the like.
So… the difference here is that fast food (like most other things in life) can be abused… however, diets almost always cause more problems than they fix… which is why I’d love to see diet programs get their pants sued off and why fast food prolly will not be successfully sued.
Keep your eye out if SlimFast or Nutrisystem get sued. Oh man… I would love to see that happen. First commentor to inform me of such a thing will win a mysterious MYSTERY PRIZE OF MYSTERY.
Redundancy makes me giggle. 😉