Chances are you have probably tried the latest fad diet, supplement, or health craze, right? Did you ever stop and think about how those products and services are marketed to the general public? Did you know marketing strategies are manipulated to attract us into thinking the latest and greatest product will make us healthy and have perfect bodies? Well, sit back, buckle up, and listen as Jessica and I deconstruct these notions of how marketing in the health and wellness industry is actually hurting us more than helping us. Our bodies can be healthy at any size, and the beauty of us all is we are INDIVIDUALS! So why should society try and squeeze into the same preconceived mold of health? Perhaps these questions we address here will make you stop and take notice of how companies strive to entice the public into drinking the same "kool-aid." And age is not a factor because now companies are targeting certain age groups in order to make money and maintain their status quo (Think of Weight Watchers and their new campaign targeting children).
As a health coach, I am more about helping individuals find their best bodies, not loosing weight to be "skinny," whatever skinny means in our society. Health and happiness comes in all sizes, and what works for me will be totally different for you. I also believe we need to educate people more about how marketing companies are targeting the weakest link in the general population-that being insecurity and a need to "belong."
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Episode disclaimer: You might hear a few choice words in this podcast. Call it "heat of the moment" frustrations at The System.
