Know what I hate about ads for weight-loss supplements?

Orrex

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Fri Sep-05-08 05:51 PM
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Know what I hate about ads for weight-loss supplements?

Edited on Fri Sep-05-08 05:57 PM by Orrex

It's this selling-point:

"Guaranteed to help you lose up to 10 pounds or more in the first week."

Excuse me? "Up to 10 pounds or more?"

So that means that I could lose anywhere from zero to infinity, and you'd still claim that your bullshit supplement works as advertised? Technically you're correct, Mr. Weightloss Advertiser, but I'd also be correct if I said "If I don't lose actual weight and keep it off, then I'm going to kick zero percent of your parasitic ass, or more."

Incidentally: I don't buy these supplements, but it's hard to watch an hour's worth of post-primetime tv without seeing a handful of misleading ads for them.

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Fri Sep-05-08 05:54 PM
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1. Drive the new Cadillac Escalade - guaranteed to get up 100 million miles to the gallon!

What I hate about the weight-loss supplement ads is that the government isn't cracking down on those companies and putting them out of business for being charlatans and assmucnhes.

I also hate about these ads that they play entirely on the American psyche - LOSE WEIGHT WITHOUT CHANGING YOUR LIFESTYLE!!!!!!!!

Yep, all it takes is a magic pill. You can still be a lazy ass piece of shit eating 5000 calories a day. No exercise needed, no change from a diet of bacon and Doritos and soda to one of veggies and water and fish.

Nope. Just take this here supplement, morbidly obese fucking jackass lazy America.

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Orrex

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Fri Sep-05-08 05:56 PM
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3. Well, sure. That's the *other* thing I hate about them

IMO it's absolutely stupid that the FDA has no authority to regulate supplements. These represent billions of dollars in annual sales, mostly on the basis of preposterous claims about wholly untested products. Or, if they're tested, then they haven't been shown to have anything like the effect that they're claimed to have.

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Fri Sep-05-08 05:54 PM
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2. "but I'd also be correct if I said...." what?

Need to finish your thought there buddy boy. BTW, weight loss supplements are just like any other supplement as long as they say "This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA" they can pretty much claim anything.

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Orrex

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Fri Sep-05-08 05:56 PM
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4. That's weird. It dropped out of my post.

Edited!

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hvn_nbr_2

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Fri Sep-05-08 06:51 PM
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5. I hate "up to" in any kind of ad.

"Up to" 50% off! Some stuff is 10% off some is 12% off, some is regular price, we raised the price on a few things, and a broken trinket in clearance bin is 50% off.

"Up to" is a synonym for "no more than."

But more to the point of your post: If anything makes you lose 10 pounds in a week, it's either a diuretic, a laxative, or something dangerous (or some combination). Well, I guess the do-it-yourself amputation kit might do it too.

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