Diet Supplements Affecting american Standard of Living

The health market is a dominant factor within society, the new advances in technology have created supposed wonder diet supplements. Companies producing dietary supplements do not need FDA (federal drug administration) approval thus it is hard to create a set of rules to make sure these supplements are useful. The law states that companies are required to make sure their own supplements are safe. Effectiveness is not covered under the law this is how advertising and companies, “lull us into fantasies of a consumer paradise where perfect happiness requires only purchasing the right exercise equipment and diet supplements”(Morris 97). The strategies of advertising force people to believe they are out of the “norm” this then makes people believe buying certain things will make them instantly better. Think of yourself or others that have bought exercise equ

Healthy is a loose term in which illusions have consumed everyone’s thoughts, its hard to tell someone health just by looking at there body. The healthiest looking man in the world walking down the street even after achieving the perfect body could have cancer ridden cells. It is unfair to have these thoughts of, “the nightmare of that body is one that is deformed, maimed, mutilated, broken, diseased”(Davis 140). This means that if a disabled person walks down the street you pity or turn away in disgust at the sight of a human that does not meeting society’s views of perfect or even normal. People have a mind set that everyone is able bodied to which they get confused when someone they have respected and called peer has a disability.

In conclusion, economically the health supplement market is growing incredibly and needs regulation by the currently helpless FDA to weed out supplements that do nothing but cost a lot and cause cancer. Socially humans need to learn individual standards instead of impossible goals set by society. A doctor knows what healthy is, not some advertisement trying to sell you a Bow-Flex. Thus listen to a doctor’s opinion about your health not some fitness guy selling you supplements. Davis has stated on the definition of disability that “the presumpti

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