A relevant, refreshing bit of truth...from Cracked.

George_Baileys_Ghost
George_Baileys_Ghost Posts: 1,524 Member
edited February 20 in Health and Weight Loss
Logged into cracked.com this morning to find some humorous tidbits to steal and work into my wall posts so I'd come off looking hilarious to the people I've totally fooled into thinking I have a sense of humor. It's like Photoshopping your personality.....anyway...I'm getting off topic.

We all see ads and infomercials for weight loss products. (I'll wait while you look to the right, and then look up.) See those? What if I told you that not everything in them was completely honest?

As I was saying before, I logged into cracked this morning and saw an interesting article about some of the rampant bs behind weight loss ads, and thought it was good enough to share with you fine people. Smacznego!

http://www.cracked.com/article_21211_5-shocking-realities-behind-ads-weight-loss-products.html

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  • Jestinia
    Jestinia Posts: 1,153 Member
    This is pure gold! Not that surprising, really. Did anyone think working out ten minutes a day would turn an obese SAD diet American into a ripped gym fanatic ever, much less in a month or three?

    Haha. From your link:


    "The real plan was for us to work out three to six hours per day for a month. They also put us on a strict diet (the DVD emphasized that you didn't have to diet at all, but this is the real world), locking us down to 1,000 calories a day, which you may recognize as the caloric value of the smell of a Big Mac."
  • MireyGal76
    MireyGal76 Posts: 7,334 Member
    What a sad article. :(

    Selling false hope.
    Makes me mad
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,215 Member
    But we already know this.

    At least on this website, we do. :ohwell:
  • George_Baileys_Ghost
    George_Baileys_Ghost Posts: 1,524 Member
    Quick follow-up...I'm not sure what's got into cracked but they mention weight loss in this article also:

    http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-rags-to-riches-success-stories-that-are-full-crap/?wa_user1=4&wa_user2=Weird+World&wa_user3=blog&wa_user4=feature_module

    It's awesome to see that they are decrying very low calorie dieting.
  • Derpes
    Derpes Posts: 2,033 Member
    Bump.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    But we already know this.

    At least on this website, we do. :ohwell:

    some of us yes....
  • Jestinia
    Jestinia Posts: 1,153 Member
    Quick follow-up...I'm not sure what's got into cracked but they mention weight loss in this article also:

    http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-rags-to-riches-success-stories-that-are-full-crap/?wa_user1=4&wa_user2=Weird+World&wa_user3=blog&wa_user4=feature_module

    It's awesome to see that they are decrying very low calorie dieting.

    And this is why I really liked the BBC documentary Super Slim Me, where the interviewer finds people who admit that they stay skinny by such esoteric and difficult methods as starving themselves for days and weeks at a time.

    I envy her, too. Before this documentary, she ate very well and stayed at a perfectly healthy, lovely weight. I have never in my adult life done that. She talks about how horrible she felt, mentally and physically, after trying out all these various weight loss methods of the stars.

    (It's on youtube for free if anyone wants to watch it.)
  • jayliospecky
    jayliospecky Posts: 25,022 Member
    "His name is Mitch Quarterback. He was captain of the handsome team and went to Yale to major in ab studies."

    :laugh:

    And also,

    "In this fantasy world, there's an epic war raging where only those who look good in a red two-piece will survive."

    :laugh:
  • George_Baileys_Ghost
    George_Baileys_Ghost Posts: 1,524 Member
    "His name is Mitch Quarterback. He was captain of the handsome team and went to Yale to major in ab studies."

    :laugh:

    And also,

    "In this fantasy world, there's an epic war raging where only those who look good in a red two-piece will survive."

    :laugh:

    Yeah, sometimes their photo captions are brilliant! That first one especially cracked me up.
  • blondageh
    blondageh Posts: 923 Member
    If you see ads on this site...I highly suggest ad blocker, it is your best friend ever!..now on to read the link you posted.
  • dym123
    dym123 Posts: 1,670 Member
    bumping so I can read at home. stupid work is blocking website. :sad:
  • cardbucfan
    cardbucfan Posts: 10,571 Member
    I'm going to check out those links but just had to say my ads today are for Duke energy insulation improvements lol! Not sure what's up with that?!?!
  • sugarstrawberries
    sugarstrawberries Posts: 140 Member
    I get stuck reading Cracked a lot and I like the direction they're going.
  • FireOpalCO
    FireOpalCO Posts: 641 Member
    I'm going to check out those links but just had to say my ads today are for Duke energy insulation improvements lol! Not sure what's up with that?!?!

    Mine are for pet wound spray and a Kindle Fire. It's like "cats beating the hell out of each other? Don't get up, just spray them from the couch and keep playing Candy Crush."
  • IsabellaGiano
    IsabellaGiano Posts: 158 Member
    Sometimes I feel very sad thinking that a lot of people look at those ad not just for a laugh but because they believe in that crap...
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    I was going to post that as well!
  • IsabellaGiano
    IsabellaGiano Posts: 158 Member
    I liked sooo much a book from Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose.

    It was (also) on the intense desire of people to believe in impossible things. Their will of fooling themselves even ignoring the simple truth.

    Like truth is too simple, they want something complicated, they want Mu and Atlantis and Roosvelt were killed by aliens and oh my gosh my dog was kidnapped by the monster of Lockness. Or, obviously, that for lose weight you have to shower yourself in oil of lattuce instead of looking at what you eat.

    I still don't understand why. It's not all about intelligence. Many believers are not stupid. But... unfocused.. voluntarily unfocused, as to see only what they want to see.
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    Thank you! What an excellent article. I hope all the people who fall for those weight loss scams read it.
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