There are too many people out there preying on the insecurities and low self esteem of us larger folk. They are criminals and dangerous ones at that. Men who prey on women and children are considered predators, yet people who prey on the insecurities and ignorance of others are called business people.

It saddens me daily to see that so many of the useless and/or dangerous weight loss gimicks that have now been debunked or made illegal back home are hot items on the Chinese market now. Everything from pills, creams, electonic zappers and a multitude of devices that "shake" the weight off of you apparently. Remember those silly belt machines that would shake yer butt and somehow that would make you skinny? HUGE market for them here now, but most people back home have only ever seen them in movies or old tv shows. The ones that get me are the "shaking platform" (you just stand there and lose weight apparently) and the saddle, which really is just a vibrating saddle for women that I HIGHLY suspect has nothing whatsoever to do with weight loss...... Oy. But at least those are just mechanical things. I am sure soon enough people here will be injecting themselves with crap and taking magic pills and starving themselves too. China is becoming too western for their own good!

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