Over Night Change
The massive grandfather clock strikes Midnight and finally it is a new year. Josh an eighteen year old boy who is home alone on New Years, quickly knew what his new year’s resolution is. Josh’s resolution is to lose fifty pounds and get fit and try to play some intramural sports in college and succeed. He thought how is he was going to do this and he thought supplements, would help him. Josh went and got a fitness magazine and started to look though it for supplements he could take. Americans should not take magazine supplement advertisement seriously.
The first thing American’s and Josh as well see when they pick up a fitness magazine and look inside is the before and after pictures. The thing the public and Josh don’t know is that these pictures are not real. Well they are real but in most cases they are taken in the same day but the after picture is taken and edited. With this happening the pictures look so much different and you think the product really works, but it doesn’t. In reality there just tricking all of us.
The second thing Americans and Josh see is all the ripped guys and half naked women in the magazine. They have these huge guys that are just jacked and men and boys think dang he is huge or he is cut I want to look like that. Then the women look at the same picture and they think man he is so hot. Next they turn the page and the men see this half naked women and they can’t keep their eyes off of her and wanted to get what’s in her hand so they can get a girl like that. As the women look at this page all they can think is that they want to look like this so they can get guys that look like the guy on the other page. With this part we see how sex sells in advertising.
The third thing American’s and Josh see are the headings next to these ads. These ads tell us everything we want to hear. It could tell us this product will give us ten pounds of muscle in ten days. Maybe it could tell us that we could gain twenty pounds in ten days. Last it could tell us lose ten pounds in ten days. The things they don’t tell us is that it’s only healthy for men to lose one to two pounds a week and for women to lose a pound to a pound and a half per week. They try to get us to believe and buy their product to do things that are unnatural things that are not healthy for our bodies.
Finally it’s time to shed light on the things people and Josh failed to read or don’t know about supplements. The thing people fail to look at or read is the warning label. They think this doesn’t apply to them I don’t need to read it or it’s to dang small to even read. It could say may cause bloody stool, acne, increase in testosterone levels, and even may cause shrinking of the testicals. Also people don’t realize that most models who get their picture taken for those products were buying don’t even take it. Most likely they took steroids and that’s how they got that body.
Before Josh goes to order the supplements he wants he talks to a friend and sees what they think. Luckily Josh’s friend set him straight and told him all the things I have told us today. Today Josh’s New Year’s goal has come true but it wasn’t because of supplements it was because of hard work and getting his diet and workout to fit what he wanted to do. American’s I would recommend us to be like Josh and don’t take supplement ads seriously and just use hard work and the right diet to reach our goals.
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