uuuh- what do I tell my friend?

grrrace

My friend is raving about this pill she started taking -

http://www.curvatrim.com/

and if you look at the ingredients they actually don't look too poisonous- but the website is just so tacky! i know there are no "miracle" pills- but can someone give me a good argument to tell my friend against this particular pill? 

LittleKatie13

I would tell her that if it actually worked, every woman in the WORLD would be in it.  Get skinny, perfect skin, big boobs with one pill?  seriously, if it worked, there wouldn't be ANYONE left trying to lose weight.  It's clearly a great big ol' scam.  Move more, eat less-it's the only way to go.

grrrace

hahah thats what i pretty much told her- i was like "apparently you're taking a magic pill!"

she's only been on it a week and hasn't actually seen results, but I think she was swept away by the website. haha

msange727

i guess that's a marketing win. but yes, definitely tell her all that you've told her, and that since it's probably not tested by any important government agency, it's probably full of crapola. fwiw - in the 60s, when "diet pills" became all the rave, do you know what their 'active ingredients' were? if you said tapeworms, you're right. that's how the first diet-pill takers lost weight. i'd tell her that too lol

careyjohnson

I would find a gentle way of telling her that diet pills are almost always one of two things: dangerous or ineffective. I would advise her to carefully investigate the ingredients.

That said, of course, you have zero control over what she puts into her body. If she feels like this pill is giving her better results and it's not hurting her, more power to her.

mjjlaw2001

I agree with what everyone else said.  If pills worked for weight loss then everyone would be taking it.  I made the mistake of trying a pill a few years ago and the weight just came back quicker and it was more. LOL.

RCAFWedding

Ditto what everyone else said! Every diet pill on the market makes the same claims (lose weight with little to no effort! it's so easy! All we want is your money! Look at the model we hired to tell you all about it! And somewhere in teeny tiny print you'll see something that says results not typical or when combined with a low calorie diet and exercise.) I've said it before, but the trick to losing weight is that there is no trick. 

LaurenDarling

Looks like snake oil to me. I'd like to point out there are no testimonial photos on their site either. Or legit explanations of "how it works"