Conference rocks::weight_control

153.0. "Why's she endorsing a product she didn't use?" by PLANET::WATKINS (Don't mind me-low brain cell count) Thu Nov 12 1987 09:18

    This might come under fad diets, but this morning (while waiting
    for the roads to clear up) I saw a program pushing a diet plan.
     they had this woman by the name of Sandra Brooks who lost 270 lbs!
    Can you believe it?  Now she's out touting the "Sandra Brooks Final
    Diet Plan."  The basis of this diet is that if she did it, everyone
    can do it.  It comes complete with "willpower tape" three booklets
    fo dieting tips, and of course three bottles of "all natural vitamin
    pills."
    
    My question is this:
                       Yes, Sandra Brooks lost the weight, but she didn't
             go by this "plan" they're trying to sell!  It would be
             different if this Sandra woman used a certain plan, and
             then they started using her name on it, but she didn't!
             Why are they marketing this plan under her name when 
             her own diet (lower food intake, retraining the way you
             think of food) had nothing to do with it?  Sandra Brooks
             didn't use these pills, so where does this endorsement
             really come from?
    
    There seems to be one certain cable station that caters to these
    kind of overpriced, "magic" plans, whether it be weight loss, cellulite
    or "youth creams from Norway."  What do you think?
    
    Stacie