I need help on this one.  How do you guys feel about celebrities endorsing diet pills?  Clothing, make up, books, jewelry I get it.  But diet pills, I’m not so sure… Especially because young people are so influenced by celebs.  I am old enough to realize that celebrities are paid to endorse almost everything but even I was interested enough to inquire about Quick Trim Extreme Burn after I read Kim Kardashian tweet that it helped her through her workout.  Even with the knowledge that the only thing that has helped me loose weight has been crazy hard workouts and eating well (and the fact that I’ve tried every diet pill under the sun) I was still interested in seeing if she knew something I didn’t.  

Diet pills (from personal experience) are dangerous.  They make you irritable, nervous, increase your heart rate, make you sweat and sometimes give you the shakes.  They get taken off the market all the time because the FDA realizes that they should have never been allowed to be sold in the first place.  There have been many cases where people not only get sick or injured from them, some people have actually died.  Remember Ephedrine?  The little white pill that made you super hyper and helped you shed weight, the one that has a similar chemical make up as methamphetamine.  According to the FDA over 30 deaths have been reported as a result of use of Ephedra.  

So like I initially asked, I am genuinely interested in what you think.  Should celebrities just endorse what they want to endorse and be guided by their own personal moral compass or should a higher governing body be able to step in every now and again when things go too far?  Have you tried diet pills before and would a celebrity endorsement pique your interest?

xoxo,

coco

p.s. still love you kim…