I’ve been pretty busy lately, so I haven’t kept up with the newest material on the main domain. But I had some extra time today, so I thought I’d take a look.<\/p>\n
There’s some good stuff there (kudos to Paul and Sumi!).<\/p>\n
I was especially amused by Paul’s Metabosyn review<\/a>. The review itself wasn’t funny, but whenever I see the address, 3165 Millrock Dr. Ste 500, SLC Utah, my eyes start to spontaneously roll upwards. Afterwards, I just had to check out the sales site.<\/p>\n That<\/em> was the amusing part, lol.<\/p>\n I can’t include a screenshot (not interested in a copyright spat), but you can look for yourself<\/a>. As of this writing, the header features a pic of a young woman next to the product. She’s meant to be aspirational: she’s sporting a lean, bare midriff (what else?) beneath her dark blue sports bra, and has a sultry look on her face.<\/p>\n Below the header, there’s also a pic of a smiling doctor – you can tell by the stethoscope casually draped around the collar of his lab coat. Unlike a lot of stereotypical ad docs, he’s not a silver-haired, “Marcus Welby” type – rather, he’s a 30-something man with a frat-boy grin and a slight 5-o’clock shadow.<\/p>\n Thanks to the number of freebie fitness\/diet e-books I’ve produced over the years, I know<\/em> stock photos when I see ’em. There’s such a contrived “feel” to so many of them, which is why the more ridiculous examples are targeted for mockery (see, for example, “Women Laughing Alone With Salad<\/a>” and “Women Struggling to Drink Water<\/a>“).<\/p>\n Since many “budget” royalty-free archives carry the same pics, I took a quick tour of my favorite, iStockphoto.com<\/a>. It took me less than 10 minutes to find both the woman (“Fit woman with serious facial expression<\/a>“) and the “doctor” (“Happy Male Doctor Isolated on White Background<\/a>“).<\/p>\n Obviously, I don’t have a problem with the use of stock photos in general. But the way I see it, a retailer that promises “No Hype, No Fake Promises…<\/em>” adjacent to pictures of a (strongly implied) fake<\/em> product user and a fake<\/em> doctor has some issues with credibility, right off the bat.<\/p>\n It’s just another reason why I distrust supps available only through “one-off” product sales sites like this one. The model’s “hot” alright, but it’s unlikely that Metabosyn had anything to do with it. And while there may be a doc or two out there who’d recommend OTC weight loss supps to their patients, the medical profession generally frowns on them<\/a>. A pic of a smiling, confident “doctor” implies medical approval and certainty where none actually exists.<\/p>\n As the saying goes, “caveat emptor.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been pretty busy lately, so I haven’t kept up with the newest material on the main domain. But I had some extra time today, so I thought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7,29],"tags":[1763,1770],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990"}],"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=6990"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10435,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions\/10435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}