Does /ck/ have a favorite infomercial? My favorite has to be the Dr. Oz approved "The Fat Magnet." This device was designed to suck non nutritional ingredients such as fat out of normally unhealthy food thus making it seem healthier for consumption
This shit is notorious bad for not working...not even in theory does this shit sound like it works
>>7602850
We've also got really poor nutritional education, which is why so many people think that low-fat/nonfat foods can be eaten by the truckload.
>>7602850
Poor impulse control is not country-exclusive.
t. Fat Kiwi
>>7602847
This sounds like the perfect gadget for people who hate flavor.
>>7602847
How did this even make it to market with those claims?
I suppose they worded the functionality vague enough so that false advertising wouldn't be accused.
>>7602850
The problem with fats has always been how dense in calories they are. But the whole all fats are bad meme is definitely something that needs to stop.
>>7602879
>fat Maori
Fixed that for you cuzzybro
>>7602882
It's a skimmer for retards who can't skim. You freeze it, skim a broth or stew and the fatty layer on top solidifies on contact with the frozen plate in the bottom of the device.
Trust american housewives to be too mentaly handicapped to skim a broth without a special tool.
>>7602847
>non nutritional ingredients
>such as fat
>>7602847
It's not on any informercial because it's too retarded, but they sell these at the supermarkets around here.
The instructions on the back say to use half the amount of water and half the seasoning packet. That is how this thing makes ramen quicker and healthier.
>>7602847
You can get the same result by freezing a metal spoon. All it does is get surface fat to solidify against the cold metal. So if you need to skim the fat from a soup or stock or sauce it -could- work. Or you could use a god damn spoon.
>>7603479
That's not how it's used in the infomercial.
>>7604511
It's exactly how it's used in the infomercial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnGWzWWHWyM
>>7604643
who the fuck is dr oz
>>7602847
>non nutritional ingredients such as fat
>>7604720
The guy who films patient deaths in the ER and then cables it out on TV without anyones concent to the horror of grieving family who gets to see and hear their father/husband bleed out while asking for his wife. It makes good TV.
http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2016/04/hospital-will-pay-2-2m-for-letting-dr-oz-show-film-wo-consent-air-death/
>>7602847
A guy from my hometown was selling rings you put around your toe, elastic rings and they would somehow make you lose weight. People even got mad that it didn't work.
>>7604747
Is this episode on YouTube?
>>7604720
the only dr most americans can afford
>>7604809
>inb4 dr pepper
>>7604847
He's a dietitian
>>7602847
>removes calories
i guess...
>My favorite has to be the Dr. Oz approved "The Fat Magnet."
what happened to this guy? When he appeared on Oprah he seemed okay but now he just endorses the craziest shit, does he no longer care about his reputation in the medical world?
>>7604867
Definitely doesn't care.
Pretty much everyone in the medical community hates him for spreading misinformation. And he's been doing that on his show since 2009.
Don't know how he was on Opera.
>>7604875
lmao
Did the Big City Slider Station actually work?
>>7604875
2000 cal/day is still fat ass mode.
If she wasn't eating a retarded "Healthy" foods she would have actually stood a chance.
>>7602882
>How did this even make it to market with those claims?
companies do not submit their commercial claims to the government for approval before release. consumers must appeal to the government when a company makes fraudulent claims.
>>7604921
the way it should be
>>7604921
think of how absurd it would be if any time you wanted to advertise anything you had to sit in front of a panel of bureaucrats
>>7604902
>2000 cal/day is fat ass mode
Maybe if you're tied to a wheelchair or some shit, some people actually move their bodies sometimes
>>7604937
2000 kcal/day was supposed to be the average intake for a 5'8" male. A 5'4" office girl won't need anywhere near 2000
>>7604875
She really is pretty hot for a fatty, though.
>>7604933
You just submit a report backing up your claims, which you should already have anyway because if you're making the claims truthfully you must have put the research into it beforehand.
>>7605338
Which is why the challenge was for her to work out every day as well...to burn off those extra calories and get the body into a cycle to burn off the stored fat too.
Are you intentionally refusing to use reading comprehension, or just your standard /fit/izen lunkhead?
>>7604875
Her diet meal plan is 2x (or more) what I eat each day, and I am a normal weight for my height.
>>7605422
do you live a 100% sedentary lifestyle? If you eat half that and maintain a weight, you are not living a healthy lifestyle
>>7605437
I am very very short.
>>7602847
Oh hell yes. I recorded this shit on VHS when I was little, I just loved watching them use the knives. I never did get a set though.
Full infomercial here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72ZZ42Irxng
>>7602847
This all started in the 80's
There were two American scientists with very different findings as far as the nascent obesity epidemic.
One scientist came up with the conclusion that American food chemists had created processed shit that tasted like cardboard. Pumping salt and more importantly sugar into these products was the only way to make them palatable. Sugar itself is fine but the ratio of processed products since the end of WWII had gone through the roof. Eating 3 tablespoons of sugar a day is decidedly NOT fine.
If addressed this would have been huge, cost a lot of money to fix and would have made a lot of individuals in the food industry with influence very, very cross. Especially the sugar lobby.
The other scientist said "Yeah, it's the fat."
That was a much easier and cheaper problem to fix. So everybody was like "Well, seems legit!" and you had overnight all these Low Fat(tm) products. Loaded of course with sugar. And since tinkering with recipes to make them low fat made them taste even -worse- than cardboard the solution was
>MOAR SUGAR!
And that is how Americans accept Junk Science when the truth just hurts/costs too damned much.
>>7605444
when will they learn
>>7605486
So I have to decide whether to laugh or have bowl of Honey Nut Feelios that in circa 2016 what amounts to 'fat warding talismans' are being sold to people who gobble gram after gram of sugar every meal. Breads, (Yo dawg we heard you like sugar so we put sugar in your sugar!) soups... Even those beloved fucking 'tendies' of yours.
Dr. Oz is no different from let's say Dr. Feeny who wanted to sell you ~Dr. Feeny's Wonder Tonic~ in 1906. Suddenly the Dr. suffix just adds authority and legitimacy!
>>7605522
Should we castrate short men? I think the answer is obvious
>>7605338
i'm six foot and get 15000 steps per day. how much I can eatint?
>>7605486
I've always though my chicken huggets should be ISO 9001 compliant.
>>7605553
There's no need to. Sexual selection naturally stops them from breeding.
>>7605486
>Huge ass bag of gummy bears
>Fat free
>>7605659
I'm not willing to wait around for that shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmpDjPPt_00#t=377.167887
>>7605449
Ron Popeil always gave me this unsettling feeling, like there's a certain emptiness in his eyes. Something along the lines of keeping girls locked in his basement, or making a human sacrifice during every solstice. He's just weird.
>>7605662
candies are never fat, it's sugar and protein for gummies.
>>7607144
they're always coated in palm oil to keep them from sticking together.
>>7604902
>cal
>>7607187
You can delete your own posts, you know
Fat is GOOD for you. Shit, there are people who get most of their calories from it!
>>7605486
why do you feel the need to turn what is a complex subject with many economic and psychological factors into a fucking cartoonish fable? we're not fucking ten years old.
>>7604269
There may be some merit, less water might make less digestible starches thus less calories.
>>7607710
highly doubtful
>>7605338
*2500 kcal/day, I believe, is the male standard.
>>7605486
>halal
Lost it.
>>7604720
A world renown cardiologist that married some twat who's obsessed with hollistic medicine and got pussywhipped off the deep end
>>7604900
This is a very good question
The slapchop is known for being shit - what of the BCSS?
>>7602847
>tfw struggling to get enough fatin my diet to begin with
>>7602847
Wtf? Fat isn't bad for you, you need it to live. Eat all the fat you want as long as you mind calories.
>>7608357
fat makes you fat, and protein makes you a roid monkey.
100% carb diet all the way.
>>7604900
I own one, only used it once. Takes way longer than the advertised 2-5 minutes, and gets messy as all hell with all the grease dripping about, plus it doesn't cook both sides well enough for you not to have to flip the sliders.
But at least it cooks sliders... I guess?
>>7607710
But ramen is already cooked.
>>7607676
Well shit, Professor Professional! I'll just put up Venn diagrams and bullet points listing all the...
YOU'RE ON FUCKING -4CHAN-.
I'm sure the New England Journal of Medicine has peer reviewed papers posted on line right there for you.
>>7604269
>No need to use the stove or pots again!
>>7607676
He's right though.
If you want peer review, I can't offer it, but as a social scientist studying US supply chain and political food lobbies, I'll say he's got the gist
>>7602847
>>7607710
No, the reduces sodium thing is just a little blip on the back that says "use half the seasoning packet!"
>>7610853
no he doesn't. it's quite obvious why fat free was established as the primary method for weight control - fat has the most calories per gram of any nutrient. there are obviously other factors including vested commercial interests, but a retarded fairy tale 'once upon a time there were two scientists' abstraction helps no one.
>>7610855
That looks pretty stylish, the hotdog is almost looking fancy.
