It seems as if everywhere you look misleading statements and statistics are provided on products or in the news on just about every aspect, you can imagine. It is as if statistics can be written in a way to draw the audience in. One area that blows my mind is diet products. According to ABC News (2012), the statistics on the diet industry are rather large with upwards of an annual twenty billion dollars in the U.S. spent in the industry to include diet books, drugs and surgeries. We are on the look for weight loss products and when the statistics state that participants in a study lost thirty pounds or three dress sizes in a short amount of time we want it. Because many individuals set out to lose weight in the fastest way possible having
