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Crazy Marketing Claims in Ads

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  • claireychn074
    claireychn074 Posts: 1,945 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48783905#Comment_48783905

    I bought this for a friend in her 70s as joke as part of a holiday kit 🤣🤣 she absolute loved it and couldn’t stop laughing!

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,401 Member
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  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 15,689 Member

    I don't understand…beyond the funny names, what claims are being made?

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,401 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48792829#Comment_48792829

    have you ever seen a human with those shapes?

    If so, run!!!!!

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,566 Member

    I'm not getting the issue - the representation of the bodies in the pants advertised doesn't seem abnormal to me, nor is any claims being made about the pants contributing to any body shape. 🤷‍♀️

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 15,689 Member

    Thank you! Was questioning myself, as I still didn't see anything blatantly wrong. Ultra-thin, sure, but there are people like that out there.

  • yakkystuff
    yakkystuff Posts: 2,147 Member

    They seem a touch contortionist, perhaps AI.

    In this ad, not exceptionally thin, so target audience may be body positive adopters.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,235 Community Helper

    I've never seen anyone - who's not photoshopped, surgically modified or otherwise faked - who had a waist that small and a booty that bubble-icious.

    This must be like the dress that was two different colors depending on who looked at its photo.

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 15,689 Member

    Or the speaker saying "Yanni" or "Lorel" depending who heard it.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,401 Member

    are y’all pulling my leg? That “Sunzel” one with the teensy waist, massive thighs, tiny knees, and “bustle” straight out of the 1800’s looks natural to you?

    And what’s up with the tippy toes anyway?

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,566 Member

    I just don't think it is that deep.

    sure, if you super analyse the body shapes they might not be exactly true to life but neither are they wildly out there either and the ad is making no claims about the pants influencing body shapes.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,235 Community Helper

    Claims don't need to be in words to be claims.

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 15,689 Member

    Actually, I've seen a couple girls at my gym who closely resemble that "Sunsel" one.

  • claireychn074
    claireychn074 Posts: 1,945 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48794784#Comment_48794784

    Not that you were looking of course!

  • John772016
    John772016 Posts: 372 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48807965#Comment_48807965

    no, no, laugh right at them, then point at earbuds & say "Podcast is hilarious".

  • drmwc
    drmwc Posts: 1,181 Member

    There are pull up machines? How odd,I never knew that.

    I try to do mine of small edges on a hangboard to improve my finger strength at the same time.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,401 Member

    @drmwc I think that’s what it’s called? It has an adjustable counterweight to help you get up, and you can also do dips on it. Heck, I have made-up names for half the stuff in the gym.

    I spend that corner of my brain keeping up with Sanskrit names for yoga.

    I know them in the moment, but if you stopped me in the street and asked me what an ekapada kundinyasana was, I’d probably gape and go cross eyed. Same with gym equipment.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,401 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48808013#Comment_48808013

    that’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages. 🏆

  • drmwc
    drmwc Posts: 1,181 Member
    edited October 23
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48808258#Comment_48808258

    You are very likely right about the machine name! Most of my gym going these days is to climbing gyms, which tend to be light on machines. (A very good on the wall pull up training routine is:

    Select a climb. Before moving your hands, do a pull up, then get your legs back onto the wall and move your hands. There are five levels of difficulty, level one keeps both feet on the wall for the pull up; and level five being full one armed pull ups. I am way too weak for a one armer.)

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,401 Member
    edited October 26
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    from your favorite logging app: now measured per “bite”, for extra, extra accuracy.



    (In fairness, this is per serving, which they are calling a “bite”, a la “brownie bites”. For the record, I could easily nibble this one as many bites!))

  • sollyn23l2
    sollyn23l2 Posts: 2,181 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48812001#Comment_48812001

    I know from experience 1 full size reeses equals exactly 4 bites. This is fact. I will not be disputing this.

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 15,689 Member

    If the nutrition is per bite, and it takes you 4 bites to finish, you get 4x117=468 calories.

    If I stuff the whole thing into my mouth in one bite, I get 1x117=117 calories.

    Therefore, it's more in line with your diet to eat these as quickly as you can! The internet never lies!

  • drmwc
    drmwc Posts: 1,181 Member

    I don't really see how 10g of fat, 3g of protein and 13g of carbs adds up to 1117 calories. Fat is 9 calories per gram; carbs and protein are 4g. And 10*9+(3+13)*4 equals 154 calories, which is quite a bit higher than 117. (Maybe it's ultra high in fibre, so their argument is not to count all the carbs. But that is quite a lot of fibre.)

  • sollyn23l2
    sollyn23l2 Posts: 2,181 Member
    edited October 27

    Yeah, the math seems a bit off.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,401 Member

    IME the math is always off on internet recipes.

    I feel sorry for people who aren’t logging and checking ingredients, and rely on online recipe nutrition. I honestly believe some of it’s intentional.


    Wow! Look what I can have for hardly any calories! The internet says so!!!!

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,401 Member

    hit a trove of these things:


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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,235 Community Helper

    I hope that was beer we need to mix the pink salt with, just sayin'. I admit, I'd rather just drink the beer, have the salt on pretzels or something. Think that would work? 😉

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,401 Member
    edited October 31

    I thought it looked like the head on a root beer float, but you may be right. Hmmmm.

    These ads where they take normal foods and horrorize them just kill me.

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 15,689 Member

    I love the ones where the senior citizens have musculature which any bodybuilder would salivate over…

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