The topic area that I choose for my Service Learning Project is “The Diet Industry” because it’s a topic that I’m very interested in. At fist the topic was broad but I quickly decided that I wanted to become more knowledgeable with the issue of ‘diet pills'.

The issue of diet pills is important to me because I know of users who harm their bodies all of the time just so that they can be thin, like the media teaches them. Through this project I would like to be able to provide awareness about the risks people put on their bodies, when they take diet pills, just so that they can fit an image the media has created. In expanding on the risks, I would like to provide safer ways to go about losing weight and looking the way they would like.

People that I could interview would be major/popular weight loss program counselors. Perhaps someone who’s tried many types of diet pills or someone who has developed long-term side-effects from constant uses would be good to get into contact with. Successful dieters that can share their story of what diet or ‘lifestyle’ helped them would also help to provide better options instead of diet pills. Some sources that will be helpful are diet books, the internet, and information about diet pills; how people who use them don’t have to exercise and still shed pounds, even though they hurt you. Also, just going to a pharmacy and reading the labels on the bottles would show the danger of diet pills.