{"id":1605,"date":"2009-04-20T20:28:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T18:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2015-03-10T08:42:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T12:42:50","slug":"weight-loss-lip-gloss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/weight-loss-lip-gloss\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight Loss Lip Gloss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I know…it’s a real eye-roller<\/a>.\u00a0 Nonetheless, people do fall for\u00a0gimmicks like this, especially when\u00a0the products are\u00a0attractively packaged and the ad spiels\u00a0are\u00a0dressed up with sciency-sounding explanations about transdermal absorption of “clinically proven” ingredients.<\/p>\n

Thus,\u00a0I was prepared to high-five an article in the L.A. Times: “A Little Lip Gloss, a Little Weight Loss<\/a>” by Alexandra Drosu.\u00a0 I\u00a0clicked on the link the minute I saw it…under the assumption\u00a0that\u00a0an article\u00a0printed in a major American newspaper would\u00a0take a skeptical approach.\u00a0 After all, reporters are supposed to do some investigative leg work, and provide some analysis…right?<\/p>\n

More fool me…<\/p>\n

It turned out to be\u00a0a total “fluff” piece.\u00a0 The author and unnamed others (she consistently uses the term “we”) got hold of 4 products and tried them out to see how well\u00a0they worked.\u00a0 They evidently limited each test to an application or two,\u00a0then recorded their subjective impressions.<\/p>\n

Real scientific rigor, there.<\/p>\n

What got me, however,\u00a0was that\u00a0Drosu never explicitly challenged any of the product claims; nor did she (or the two so-called\u00a0professionals she interviewed) show even minimal awareness of the fact that transdermal weight loss\u00a0products work locally at best<\/a>. \u00a0At worst, they’re\u00a0complete frauds<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Needless to state, the latter are pretty common – which is why skepticism is vital.\u00a0 I visited each of the four product web sites listed in the article myself: not a single one of them\u00a0provides any proof of their claims.\u00a0 Only one of the four (ThinGloss)\u00a0even provides testimonials.\u00a0 In short, they’re precisely the kinds of sites Paul and I advise people to AVOID.\u00a0 If\u00a0retailers\u00a0want my money, then they should give me\u00a0good\u00a0reasons to believe their products will work as claimed.\u00a0 Is that so much to ask?\u00a0<\/p>\n

And these products aren’t cheap, either\u00a0(3 of the 4 retail for over $20.00) – so\u00a0I think\u00a0readers deserve a little more info, beyond which\u00a0glosses produce “a sexy pout”.<\/p>\n

Geez…wish I could get\u00a0paid to be this inane.\u00a0 No wonder newspapers are struggling these days<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I know…it’s a real eye-roller.\u00a0 Nonetheless, people do fall for\u00a0gimmicks like this, especially when\u00a0the products are\u00a0attractively packaged and the ad spiels\u00a0are\u00a0dressed up with sciency-sounding explanations about transdermal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,19,28,29],"tags":[991,1023,1483,1672,1867],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10070,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/10070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}