Garrow J S
Department of Human Nutrition, Medical College, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK.
Int J Obes. 1989;13 Suppl 2:145-7; discussion 149.
I think that VLCD should not be used because the commercial basis for these diets makes it necessary to undermine the faith of obese patients in conventional diets. This attitude is reinforced, for commercial reasons, by counsellors who are neither as independent nor as expert as the company suggests. The net effect is that obese people are put to additional expense to buy a product that they do not need, and their confidence in their ability to control their own diet is unnecessarily destroyed.
我认为极低热量饮食不应被采用，因为这些饮食的商业基础使得有必要破坏肥胖患者对传统饮食的信心。出于商业原因，那些既不像公司所宣称的那样独立也不像公司所宣称的那样专业的咨询师强化了这种态度。最终的结果是，肥胖者要花费额外的费用去购买他们不需要的产品，而且他们对自己控制饮食能力的信心被不必要地摧毁了。
