FREE ESSAY ON DIETING

DIETING

The article I chose to write about is entitled "The Lazy Guy's Guide to Health"; it is
foundin the October 1998 issue of Maxim Magazine. The magazine is promoted towards menand
mainly covers issues dealing with men's health. The whole point of the article is to
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show men easy ways to lose weight. It lists eleven different things a man can do to lose
weight and reduce the calories in his diet. All of the suggestions are quick and easy
ways
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to keep weight off. 
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The basic information in the article is good. The suggestions the author lists seemto be
simple enough for most men. Even the though article has no flow it does get the point
across about weight loss; if you work at it, every man can lose some weight. For
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most men it's nice to hear that they can stay fit without having to spend several hours a
week in a gym. It does a great job explaining how to stay fit. The tips are things that
mostmen can use wherever they live. The article has information that is very useful for
men that lead a busy life. The most important thing this article does is tell men what
they want tohear. Most men want to hear that weight loss is something that takes little
time and effort.
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Having appeal can be the most important part of an article from a common
consumer'sstandpoint. The article will catch the eye of most male readers simply because
of the article's title. The author is not a good writer from an English instructor's
point of view,
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but he does a great job of getting his point across. 
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I think the author should have been more informed about physical fitness. The way I was
able to tell that he needed more knowledge about health was because he didn't use
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very many details when he talked about losing weight. The author never told you why
aperson might have a weight problem, he simply told you how to lose the weight once you
gained it. From a time standpoint; the article never states how long it might take for a
man
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to lose weight using these tips. Most people aren't trained health professionals and they
don't really know how to diet correctly. I include myself when I say that most people
don't know the correct way to lose weight. The article claims that it applies to most
men,
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the author should have used some percentages to back up his point. Another thing the
author never states is whether or not results will vary due to a man's age. In my opinion
the author should have used a story of a man who used these tips to lose weight. It
would
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have shown the reader that by using these tips a man can get the results he wants when
itcomes to weight loss. 
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The article does not flow very well. Since the article is listing things it doesn't havea
rhythm. Its very hard for a paper to flow when it is a list of items. The author mainly
uses quotes from doctors and universities rather than his own point of view. The
structureof the article is rather poor. The author made no attempt to write this article
in a way where it flowed. Instead of writing several paragraphs that flowed together and
were cohesive, he wrote down far too many small paragraphs that just had no flow or
rhythm. It seemed like the article was one large list that made no sense. I felt like the
author didn'tput any time into writing a good article. It was evident that he spent quite
a bit of time
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doing research for his article; he just didn't put that same effort into writing the
article itself. You don't have to know very much about health and fitness to know that
this articleisn't great advice on how to lose weight. At the same time I don't claim to
be a healthexpert, but I've tried to lose weight and I know that it is much tougher than
this article makes it out to be. 
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The author of this article gets his point across, but the real problem is the way hegets
it done. He has done some great research as far as weight loss; he just doesn't put
thearticle together in a way that made any sense. It was easy to follow, but at the same
time it wasn't put together in a logical way. I would say that the author had his facts
straight and had some great things to tell the readers, but he just isn't a very capable
writer when it
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comes to tying it together. I would say that the article has useful information if you're
trying to lose weight.