Stupid diet commercials!

[tigerlofu]

C and I have been watching quite a bit of telly over the last few days, and there are so many stupid commercials. One that really annoyed me was one that talked about loosing 30 lb in 15 weeks by using this special diet. I have never believed in diets, or rather I have never believed in the if you just eat this one supplement your life will be

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[mabaliciousness]

I would never buy a diet supplement that wasn't like, prescribed by a doctor, because that's how you end up on speed. If you ordered cocaine from the tv, you could also lose 30 pounds in 15 weeks, but both solutions are going to leave you with a whole other mess you have to deal with. XD

My personal favorite kind of ads are the ones for pain killers. There's this one that shows an older woman playing badminton, and then it superimposes her image over the background of badminton to have her say something along the lines of, "My doctor told me I was going to seriously damage my knee if I kept playing badminton; I didn't like that answer." So instead of listening to her doctor, she ordered these great pills off the television, and now she can play badminton all she wants! ...until she doesn't have knees anymore.

Seriously, are people really dumb enough to buy into that crap? Especially when your doctor is telling you that you need to stop doing something so that your knees won't give out permanently. Just because the pain is gone

[phantomcranefly]

Ugh. I have so many issues with the whole diet culture. This is Betsy, by the way- okay if I friend you?

[tigerlofu]

Oh I totally not mind at all...