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Spotty J asked in HealthDiet & Fitness · 8 years ago

When will you knuckleheads figure out that the "Special K Challenge" is not a diet?

Two bowls of sugar-flakes with sugar water and 2 Kellogg brand candy bars a day? It's an ad campaign people!

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    Good luck, buddy. I've been trying to bark up that tree for a long time. It's useless trying to explain most people that a high-carb diet will ultimately lead nowhere in most cases.

    They see a commercial about the "benefits" of eating Special K and they think that's all you must eat in order to get the same body the model they used for the Special K commercial has. Now I understand how easy it is after all to establish totalitarian regimes when so many people are willing to believe whatever they're told without questioning as long as a solution to their problem SEEMS to be offered. As long as you offer them clean, nice pictures any reasoning goes. They fall for the scam because they trust image, not science; opinions and prejudices, not FACTS. That's basically the story of mankind in a nutshell.

    People are desperate and lazy. They want a nice healthy body, but don't want to do the research on how to get it. They'd rather spend vast sums of money on any advertised product that's just a scam than consult scientists and researchers, in short those who have spent years, in some cases their whole lives, studying nutrition. It's their loss, not mine.

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