When it comes to almost all weight loss and food products, the people paid to promote them on television, in magazines and elsewhere are the leastlikely to actually use them.
That is one of the reasons they look so good! Wearing a milk mustache every day is one of the best ways to ensure that you'll never look your best! Paul Zane Pilzer wrote in The Wellness Revolution: "Imagine the hypocrisy of celebrities who sport milk mustaches in paid advertisements, but themselves drink only soy milk based products.
" And if you don't think that's the case, think again.
Let's talk about the "professionally-beautiful," and the mythology that surrounds and supports them.
"The Celebrity Milk Mustache" is just one extremely blatant example of how eating behaviors that lead to overweight are consistently modeled in film and on television by toned, slender actors who could not work in their profession if they ate the way that their characters are portrayed to eat.
We are shown the rail-thin actress swallowing pizza and beer, the lean, well-developed actor drawing laughs as he appears to consume piles of high-fat foods, the perfectly fit sitcom couple eating the standard American diet that in real life would make them overweight and ill...
These visual statements are everywhere, and they send a message to both our conscious and subconscious minds that overeating nutrient-poor foods, yet remaining in top physical condition, is not only possible, but common.
What's wrong with us, we wonder (even if only subconsciously), that we can't eat the foods they do and look like that? "I'm just lucky, I guess...
" - yeah, right! The situation is only made worse when, during interviews and other media appearances, many of those same actors and their similarly buff celebrity peers state that they eat whatever they want and never exercise, and then self-deprecatingly detail their favorite food "sins," while the rest of us wish we could be so lucky.
Maybe they do this out of a desire to connect with their audience and a certain genuine, but misguided, humility.
Or perhaps, in some cases, they are being absolutely up-front, and they are genuinely genetically "blessed.
" But the vast majority of the "professionally beautiful" aren't as laid back about their weight or physique as they let on.
They understand the rules of the game, and they're playing to win.
What the wellness elite know They enjoy the knowledge privilege that has belonged primarily to the wellness elite until now - eating, resting and exerting their bodies in optimal ways.
They choose to avoid, or only rarely eat, animal products and processed foods.
Instead, they opt for diets rich in plant nutrients.
In addition, they live in balance, for the most part, because they know being overwhelmed and exhausted do not make a body look, feel or perform well.
And they exercise in ways that are designed specifically for them.
The celebrity hawking the abdominizer gadget or the infomercial exercise video is definitely not the product of a "one-size-fits-all" program.
We reject our uniqueness and a healthy, balanced approach to weight, health and fitness that would give us the firm strong bodies we want.
We've been diet-trapped by marketing strategies that use the radiant, healthy looks of the wellness elite to sell us products that won't get us there.
Look for the Diet Trap # 10 article: The "I'm Not Motivated Enough" Trap: