What can you buy for $310,000?

http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/12/what-can-you-buy-for-310000.html

it’s a $55 billion market just in the U.S. and is expected to reach $61 billion in 2008.

Think about what that means, mostly for women who get swept up in the weight loss frenzy. A recent survey of 2,000 young women by More Magazine found that the average woman spends $5,002 every year trying to achieve a thin body: on diet and fitness aids, gym memberships, exercise tapes, supplements and “healthy” foods and diet products. “Yet, on average, women will only lose up to 3 pounds a year — most of which they put back on — while spending up to [$310,000] over a lifetime on their weight-loss regimes.”

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