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DIET PILLS: HOW SAFE ARE THEY? Adriana Guerra November 15, 2002 In today’s materialistic driven society, people are judged in every possible aspect. From their appearance, social status, way of thinking, to their friends and families. The need to be accepted and admired by others captivates the minds of many men and women of today. This conquest for social acceptance becomes so real that the idea then becomes an obsession. The way we look plays a big role in our lives. It determines the way others see us and from that, it will then determine how we feel about ourselves. One major proponent of appearance is our weight. The constant images of seeing sexy idealistic people embeds a message in our minds that this is the way all men and women should look in order to be beautiful, and because of this, we subject ourselves to abusing our health and bodies just so we can be like those perfect images. As early as I can recall, there have been many ways and procedures created by men to lose weight as fast as they can. The faster and easier it can be done, the better it is. For many years now, there has been an abundant invasion of diet pills that has hit the United States and the sale of