[Tech]

I recorded this last night. They talk about how fake and stupid those "before & after" pictures are that companies use to trick people into thinking that their product works.


Video (6:43):
http://www.zshare.net/video/deceptive-ads-wmv.html


They talk about how the company paid Michael Piacentino (bodybuilder) to stop working out and eat junk food in order to get really fat for his Xenadrine ad.

[robcardu]

lol....ive seen those ads and i dont see anything wrong, we (publicist) have to eat

[miniduck]

Interesting. You never know who's lying to ya.

[M_James]

Like the guy said...you have to suspend common sense for those ads to mean anything. Plus, does it really a surprise anyone that they try to have the before shot look like ****? If I was the marketing person for one of those Newspaper holding before and afters....I would have the guy fat as can be, unshaved, looking like he got tanked the night before, bad lighting, needing a haircut, pasta sauce on his face from his last meal....

[chadcruz]

Reminds me of that infamous Lee Priest picture where he is eating KFC.

[-Larsen]

Isnt that picture just off-season?? :) In one of his DVD's he actually eat KFC..

[Rocky]

Advertisers - right up there with lawyers. Or down there I should say.

[Pain]

Someone post that Lee Priest KFC ad,he got paid to get that fat.

[Tech]

"People always ask me why I got so fat for those pictures, and I always say that I was heavy to begin with but for those pictures I really had to push it out. If they say, "Here is $10,000 look as bad as you can" I'm going to do it! (laughs). I can look heavy, push my stomach out and not shave and look like a wreck."

[wrestlingstalion]

heh well i mean seriously there isnt a real actuall bodybuilding product out there that will actually make you look as good as any of its ads ever especially muscle-tech