Even when things conspire to depress us, everyone finds that being in good physical condition, through good nutrition and cardiovascular fitness, lessens the blows that psychodynamics may deal us when we're confronted with the bad events that come periodically. We can't do anything to prevent all of them, but we can hedge our bets by maintaining the other two aspects of the triad, nutrition and exercise. I'm pretty dizzy by all of the about faces I've done regarding diet pills. My first position was that diet pills didn't work. This was because, at the time, diet pills meant amphetamine-like substances.
Amphetamines are dangerous.
They are addictive and can cause cardiac strain and psychoses. But then when the FDA-approved Redux came out, I was inclined to say they can play a very useful role when used in an integrated diet program that includes exercise and, most importantly, behavior modification. But now, changing one's ways of living and eating needs to go hand in hand with a permanent lifetime management of weight. Some might find this easy, but most would find it difficult. They found it difficult and embarrassing to go to the gym and exercise alongside the well-proportioned and sculpted bodies of the babes and hunks.