Fair question — how much do we waste on ‘health’ products despite recession?
I posted just awhile ago about people who continue to pamper their pets in recessionary times, which leads to another very fair question: Do we “pamper” or needlessly spoil ourselves in recessionary times with all the “health” products we eat, swallow, rub on, etc.?
I saw part of an interview with the new Wal-Mart’s CEO, Rick Duke, in which he was being questioned about consumer spending habits in recessionary times. He was fascinated to discover that one of the retail industries that was doing very well in all the Wal-Mart stores was — vitamins, minerals, and other “health” products. (I use quote marks around health because I’m not qualified in any way to give health-related or medical advice, so I’m not going to call such products healthy. Consult a medical professional for that, please.)
Yet if we simply exercised regularly and ate healthy, balanced diets consumed carefully and in moderate quantities — would we really need diet pills or phenphedrine reviews to tell us how to be healthy??
I’m sure there are some wonderful “health” products, diet pills, vitamin supplements, and all the rest out there. (My wife and I both take multivitamins daily; I’ve used diet pill products in the past myself.) But perhaps these economic “hard times” have cut the budget in ways that mean we’ve got to cut back on such purchases.
Don’t be alarmed. You PROBABLY won’t die if you have to give up your favorite supplement, or at least cut back on it. How about, go eat half a cantaloupe and some crunchy raw broccoli instead? (Well, okay, not necessarily together.)