By Yvonne YANG

Hong Kong – Feburary 16 – IJS-Global – Walking in the MTR in Hong Kong, you can easily notice the diet advertisements posed by several big beautiful celebrities. On December 29 in 2008, the Hong Kong Department of Health  appealed civis stop taking Linglong Diet Capsule which contains unlabelled drug matters. In pursuit of skinny is beauty, do all the people believe in these diet advertisements? We did a vox pop interview in Festival Walk last Wednesday.

Miss Keung, a 23-year-old Hong Kong City University student, “the diet ads in MTR are cheap and low class. Those celebrities are nothing and it is impossible to believe the too skinny models.”

Mary, a traveller from New Zealand, shared her sister’s experience with us. “My sister has ever used the diet pills which cost over ten thousands, but it’s useless. The better way to lose weight still depends on doing exercise.”

Mrs. Cheung, a 50-year old housewife, “At my age, I don’t care much about losing weight. If you want to be slimmer, you can make your own body shape plan, such as healthy dieting and taking exercises. Don’t believe those ads in the MTR, the skinny celebrities are merely the show of the products. They have to be that slim.”