RDP Tuesday - "Panacea" #RDP #ragtagdailyprompt

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First it was "The Sleeping Beauty Diet", then Fen-Phen, 
then "Last Chance", and HCG. 
Someone new with a new plan,
a new idea, a powder or pill. 
A quick fix without effort, without FDA trial, 
but if it curbs the hunger and drops the weight, 
then that's trial enough. 
Now a miracle in needle form, 
advertised everywhere no matter the name, 
by prescription or not. 
Do what the celebrities do - the walking skeletons. 
Cheating? Beating the system or need for effort to change? 
If the scale tips in your favor, then who cares, right? 
Let chemistry and science in a bottle and a poke set in. 
Because the shots work, and the numbers fall. 
Hope returns. 
But is it just another panacea effect? 
Snake oil or a magic bullet fix? 
Is it just another attempt to meet impossible standards with dire effects?
Only years from now will we know.   

*Many have had great success, and I am no doctor. If it works, it works. All I know is that my sister struggled horribly. It paralyzed her stomach and almost killed her (two ER trips). Pills nearly did the same. I, too, have spent thousands for a quick fix, chasing a standard just out of reach - never thin enough*
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RDP Tuesday brought to us by Martha Kennady "PANACEA"

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