The Sensible Diet

Joel Marion is a former Body for Life champion, personal trainer, established author (he's written for Men's Fitness, Muscle Media, Woman's Day, SELF, Muscle & Fitness Hers, MuscleMag International, Oxygen and more) and the brains behind the new "Cheat Your Way Thin" diet program.

"Lose weight in your sleep", boasts the advertising for the night time diet pill SomnaSlim, "or get your money back, guaranteed!" Wow! Now that's taking the whole "losing weight is easy" thing to an entirely new level.

Viper is the "hardcore" fat burner brought to us by Dymatize Nutrition, a company that's built its reputation manufacturing no-nonsense body building supplements like protein powders, weight gainers and branched chain amino acids among others.

By the looks of things, Phenphedrine appears to be brought to us by the same anonymous retailers that introduced us to such dubious weight loss favorites as Fenphedra and Nuphedragen. The last two products sport nearly identical formulations—and Phenphedrine features the same core group of ingredients, plus a couple of extras.

Our monthly Ezine Edition will be published as scheduled on September 1st. Subscribers will find a copy already in the archive.

This month our feature article is titled "Avoiding Influenza". We in no way support the global fear mongering about influenza perpetrated principally by those with vested interests. Nevertheless, various seasonal and novel influenza viruses are part of daily reality and it is appropriate that people be informed about how to avoid influenza, without any hype or absurd claims.

The anxiety increasing numbers of people are experiencing concerning influenza (the flu, of whatever type) is harmful and unnecessary. It is time to become informed and to take sensible and safe preventative measures, and then to relax. Worrying will not help. Nor will current vaccinations and pharmaceutical antivirals, which merely constitute unnecessary expense and risk.