What really ticks me off is how much lying and exaggeration goes on in demonstrating products on TV.

The ads must think we're really stupid because we don't see this going on?

I love the way models poke their stomachs forward with bad posture then in

the second picture they're standing tall and pulling in that stomach and sucking it

in hard.  In particular the ads that shows  all of this so-called weight loss?

Oh yeah, the pix that shows how cosmetics can  smoothe the wrinkles away from the eyes.  The model just squinted her eyes and in the after-photo  did her wide-eyed look

Cheesh,

Rose C

PS  I won't say anything about the penis-enlargement pix

You were doin good till u made an excuse to be one of the many fatties....

MM/ No one said anything about making an excuse to become one of the many fatties......

most of the ads are tageting the young crowd (below 30) at half our size.  i think realistic ads for mature woman and honest info. are more convincing.

I so totally agree! Tv ad's are very crude! If you don't have a thin, and no wrinkles, well you just do not fit in! When will they use everyday normal women and men in thier ad's? Not everyone is a perdect size 6 and I am tired of it to. These people need to get real!

Maybe there wouldn't be "many fatties", as you so tenderly put it, if the companies would stop taking real food and processing all the goodness out of it all the while increasing its carbon footprint, our girth, and their bottom line.  Again, it's about companies pulling tricks and encouraging people to feel inadequate.  We all have choices and I'm going to choose to not enrich the companies that behave this way.  I'm also going to choose to be supportive of my fellow human instead of insulting something superficial about them.

MM -- good grief -- weighing more than 90 pounds makes you a fattie?  Oh well, I'd rather be a fattie than a ... something I can't say in public ... like you.

I agree totally about the less packaging, and the makeup with no harmful ingredients.  But you don't need to be bulimic to be a size 6 - you just need to exercise and eat right.

All I can say is God help us all if the only thing we can think of to fixate on is what size clothes we wear.  Be healthy as a means to improve the life you have, not to try in live in some ralph lauren inspired fantasy.

Who cares if you're a size six anyway???? People that obsess that much about weight, or try to use it as a selling point to convince me of their self worth are sad and self involved.

I'm trying to see what you have going on for yourself mentally...not what your BMI is.

I agree fully with RC, enough already.  Nothing beats being natural, besides, 98% of men, REAL men prefer a woman to look natural and just be her natural self. Just take a look and see what turns their heads and you will know the kind of man you're with. Spend your money on what makes you feel good and look your natural self and not on some add that has NO effect besides making money for someone only interested in making money. And girl's......the nasty one's.......when you are nasty to someone....you are only doing it to make yourself feel good. STOP and think!