Article at alternet...

[conuly]

Here.

It reminds me of an ad for a diet pill I saw the other day while watching... something. Maybe Futurama. Real ad, though. They kept going on and on about how this pill was "medically proven" to help you lose weight with "no lifestyle changes". You could keep eating as much of whatever you liked, and exercise as little as you pleased, and lose weight.

The thought sickened me. People in this country spend a ridiculous amount of money on food, more money on diet foods, and more money losing weight, and even in this country there's people who go to bed hungry. It's disgusing, and wasteful, and here was an ad saying that you could lose weight and still eat as much food as you liked, food that apparently wouldn't even be put to good use within your body.

And there's my thought for the day. Djusk' a.

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[davidkevin.livejournal.com]

Cable t.v....[ sigh ]. The ad is bullshit-with-a-capital-B; no diet will work alone without "lifestyle changes".

I'm sure I've seen it; it's probably one of the Cortislim clones rather than Cortislim itself -- the guy who pushes that is smart enough to say that you need more than just his product, even if it works.

Fie on all of 'em.

[conuly]

Oh, I know it's bullshit. The premise behind it still is sickening.